Product Description

In their rambling house near Romney Marsh, the children play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins and their friends, the son and daughter of a curator at the new Victoria and Albert Museum, are already inscribed with mystery. Each family carries its own secrets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10950 in Books
• Published on: 2010-01-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.76" h x 1.42" w x 5.16" l, .90 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 624 pages

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• Mint Condition
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Review
`Easily the best novel Byatt has written since Possession ... displays enormous reach and tremendous grip' --Sunday Times

`wonderfully enjoyable' --The Times

`enjoyable' --Irish Times

`Byatt's first book for seven years takes on the artistic themes of the day in exhilarating detail'
--Observer

'magnificent, intricate novel... Byatt is an enchanter' --Daily Telegraph

'AS Byatt's novel could surely be exhibited as a case of superlative novelistic design' --Independent on Sunday

`Easily the best thing Byatt's written since Possession, her panoramic novel focuses on a bohemian colony ... in early 20th-century Kent'.
--The Sunday Times

Standpoint
'One of the most grown-up you will read all year. A sexy book, full of erotic longing patchily fulfilled.'

Standpoint
'Alongside such rich, strange meat, Harry Potter does indeed start to feel like a vanilla snack for scaredy cats.'