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The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() Nesbit's family-how they all seemed to be Fabians and fairy-story writers. And the second thing was, I was interested in the structure of E. This struck me as something that needed investigating. One of the boys that Barrie adopted almost certainly drowned himself. Kenneth Grahame's son put himself across a railway line and waited for the train. ![]() I started with the idea that writing children's books isn't good for the writers' own children. ![]() In an interview with The Guardian Byatt says: While the central character of Olive is a writer of children's literature, supporting her large family with her writing, the title of the book refers to the children in the book: Tom, Julian, Philip, Elsie, Dorothy, Hedda, Griselda, Florence, Charles/Karl, Phyllis, and others, following each as they approach adulthood and the terrors of war. The Wellwood family (Olive, Humphry, Olive's sister Violet, and many children) are Fabians, living in a world of artists, writers, and craftsmen, all moving into new ways to express art, and living an artful life, before the horrors and loss of the Great War. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize. Nesbit there are secrets slowly revealed that show that the families are much more creatively formed than first guessed. ![]() Loosely based upon the life of children's writer E. It follows the adventures of several inter-related families, adults and children, from 1895 through World War I. The Children's Book is a 2009 novel by British writer A. ![]()
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