This book is really amazing in its historical sweep, but this is also part of its flaw. The book mainly follows one family and its circle of friends through the turning of the 20th century up to WWI. The family is English and has ties to the English Socialist movement, the Fabian society, and variou...
The Children's Book is a story about the Wellwood's, a dysfunctional English family. Olive Wellwood is a famous children's author and the matriarch of this family. The novel follows her life and the life of her children as they grow from childhood to adulthood. The stories of the family members w...
There is so much happening in this story that it will take me days to process. Overall I loved it - my take from seeing other reviews is that you either do love it or hate it. It is a fantastical journey into the history and development of the Fabian socialist movement and Arts and Crafts era. There...
It's taken me a while to read and it's also taken me some time to actually think of what to say on my review. I guess there is quite a bit to process...The first 50-100 pages were a little confusing as there were so many characters being introduced and it was a little bit hard on me to try to keep ...
Both brilliant and deeply flawed, this book is an extraordinary achievement that doesn’t always work, but is nevertheless a riveting, educational and inspirational read. It was so beautiful and utterly engrossing, that I loved it despite its faults, and found it filling my thoughts for a week or two...
While The Children's Book didn't grip me right from the start the way Possessiondid, and is most definitely over-written, I found myself slowly falling into it, as if under a spell. With all if it's flaw's, this is the better of the two books; I fell in love with the scenery, and the characters, an...
I'm pleasantly surprised how enjoyable this book is. The last of Byatt's book I've read was Possesion and I couldn't get into its rhythmn. But this one got me addicted from the get go. I have to admit though that I used my quick reading mode more and more at the end of the book. I wanted to know rig...
Note to self: Never expect another Byatt work to be as great as Possession; you will only be disappointed.That out of the way, this is one of those book that has many different layers, takes place over the year of several decades, incorporates a ton of history and has many, many different characters...
Heard interview with author this morning on radio, sounds like the must read of this year for me.apparently it was too 'learned' for some of the critics, so it must be right up my street.
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