Format:
Book
Title:
The children's book : a novel / by A.S. Byatt.
Author:
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-2023
Call Number:
FIC BYATT A
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Description:
675 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum--a talented working-class boy who could be a character out of one of Olive's magical tales--she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends--a world that conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces.
Subjects:
Women authors -- Fiction.
Children and adults -- Fiction.
Runaway children -- Fiction.
Country homes -- England -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction.
Coming of age stories.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
ISBN:
0307272095
9780307272096