El libro de los niños

A. S. Byatt is one of the great writers of our time. This novel, which was internationally acclaimed by critics and a finalist for the Booker Prize in 2009, is the distillation of all her experience as a storyteller: a capital work of extraordinary beauty, depth and emotion. The children's book takes place during the slow, glimmering Victorian twilight, that exciting time from the end of the 19th century to the First World War. The protagonist is Olive Wellwood, a famous children's book writer who lives with her large family in a country house, forming a kind of society dedicated to the worship of art, literature, conversation and politics. When Olive's eldest son surprises another boy from humble origins drawing a famous chandelier in a room at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, their lives begin to change. The boy will be adopted by the Wellwoods and will thus enter a dazzling world, full of disturbing mysteries.