Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private 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 love them. This is the children's book.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 624
Edition: 1
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Jan 2010
ISBN 10: 0099535459
ISBN 13: 9780099535454
Book Overview: By the author of the bestselling modern classic Possession, a marvellous, gripping, panoramic novel of family secrets, predators and innocents, war and peace, art and society.
Prizes: Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009.