The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt Fascinating and oh so very very well written (unlike this post), The Children's Book is the story of a large extended family at the turn of the 1900's. It starts with the age of Victoria and William Morris and ends at the end of the first World War. Byatt is a brilliant writer - I can't imagine even being able to hold my end up in a conversation with her. This isn't a happy book; I came away from it with the main feeling being that life is a terrible struggle for everyone for everyone to wander through and that fairytales are important and telling and are often times dark reflections of the adult world.
