The Children’s Book [DECKLE EDGE] (Hardcover)
Saturday, October 17th, 2009 From Publishers Weekly
Byatt’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 [...]