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From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession: a deeply affecting story of a singular family.When children’s book author Olive Wellwood’s oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of a museum, she takes him into the storybook world of her family and friends. But the joyful bacchanals Olive hosts at her rambling country house—and the separate, private books she writes for each of her seven children—conceal more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined. The Wellwoods’ personal struggles and hidden desires unravel against a breathtaking backdrop of the cliff-lined shores of England to Paris, Munich, and the trenches of the Somme, as the Edwardian period dissolves into World War I and Europe’s golden era comes to an end.From Publishers WeeklyByatt's overstuffed latest wanders from Victorian 1895 through the end of WWI, alighting on subjects as diverse as puppetry, socialism, women's suffrage and the Boer War, and suffers from an unaccountably large cast. The narrative centers on two deeply troubled families of the British artistic intelligentsia: the Fludds and the Wellwoods. Olive Wellwood, the matriarch, is an author of childr

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Author

Antonia Susan Byatt

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307473066

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.66 / 5 (11,102 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13