The Children's Book: A.S. Byatt
Jul. 3rd, 2012 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloA hefty family saga- with a huge cast- covering the years between 1895 and 1918. Also a cultural and social history of the period. The pivotal character is a fictional version of the children's writer E. Nesbit. Very enjoyable and immersive- and awesome in its logistics- though I can't help thinking that most of what Byatt is doing here has been done before.
