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'Intricately worked and sumptuously inlaid seethes and pulses with an entangled life of the mind and the senses alike Colour and sensation flood Byatt's writing'
Boyd Tonkin, Independent.
Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special priváté book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they 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.
They grow up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, but as the sons rebel against their parents and the girls dream of independent futures, they are unaware that in the darkness ahead they will be betrayed unintentionally
by the adults who lőve them.
'Superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip sizzling with ideas and alive with imaginative energy This is the most...
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Fülszöveg
'Intricately worked and sumptuously inlaid seethes and pulses with an entangled life of the mind and the senses alike Colour and sensation flood Byatt's writing'
Boyd Tonkin, Independent.
Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special priváté book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they 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.
They grow up in the golden summers of Edwardian times, but as the sons rebel against their parents and the girls dream of independent futures, they are unaware that in the darkness ahead they will be betrayed unintentionally
by the adults who lőve them.
'Superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip sizzling with ideas and alive with imaginative energy This is the most stirring növel A.S. Byatt has written since Possessiorí
Sunday Times
'Compelling tremendously enriching - an intricate tale, energetically fashioned by "a spinning fairy in the attic",
an indefatigable storyteller' Á
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'Astonishing power and resonance
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
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