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product_id: 80278193
title: "The Children's Book Paperback – 7 May 2009"
brand: "a s byatt"
price: "£3.73"
currency: GBP
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reviews_count: 7
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# The Children's Book Paperback – 7 May 2009

**Brand:** a s byatt
**Price:** £3.73
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- **What is this?** The Children's Book Paperback – 7 May 2009 by a s byatt
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## Customer Reviews

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    Bad quality
  

*by H***K on Reviewed in India on 16 February 2019*

Very bad quality. So disappointing

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    'the children running wild in safe woods, in dappled sunlight, the parents smilingly there when they came home'
  

*by S***X on Reviewed in India on 14 January 2015*

Wonderful novel, set over the years 1895-1919. The main families are the Wellwoods - mother an E Nesbit-like character, the several children leading an apparently idyllic life with a tree house and wonderful Midsummer parties - and their wealthy (and half-German) cousins. Their circle includes various other households: the artistic Fludds; the Cains, whose father is curator at the V & A Museum; a local theatre director. But life is not always what it seems: one of the daughters becomes aware of 'horrible secrets bubbling up around her like hot geysers out of a lava-field.'While the lives of the individuals move on (and it feels like a large cast at first - I had to write down the various family trees), so does the outside world. While Arts and Crafts and literature occupies some, others are caught up in society's problems, investigating Fabianism, anarchy, Women's Suffrage... The reader is immersed in history as 'The Golden age' of Edwardian times moves into 'The Age of Lead' of war.In the earlier stages this seemed at times like an over-long, excessively detailed work, but as you come towards the end, and the it's absolutely beautiful and exquisitely sad for many of the characters.

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    A little rambling, maybe, yet a wonderful read.
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2017*

Having read a few of the reviews here I was a little surprised by how mixed the feelings were about this book. I do agree with the fact that it is at times a little rambling (for me the sections were we suddenly leapt outside the story for a neutral narration of the events of the day seemed a little pointless), and there were a few places where things seemed to be repeated, but aside from that, I thought this was a wonderful book! You are thrown into the world of late 1800s, arts and crafts, Fabian society, with a huge list of interesting characters from an array of backgrounds and with varying ambitions and skills. A S Byatt manages to weave this all together as a believable story, with politics, suffrage and many other strands thrown in. For me the end part was the most effective...you know that the first world war must be looming in the lives of the characters, but still the abrupt end to the previously pastoral lives was so sudden when it came, that it really did bring it home again what an unimaginably awful time that was.

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