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The Children's Book

November 2023

  • AS Byatt at home in west London in 2009.

    AS Byatt obituary

    Novelist whose exhilarating genius came into its own with Possession, a worldwide bestseller and winner of the Booker prize

January 2010

  • The Children's Book by AS Byatt

    AS Byatt's The Children's Book is an impressive critique of Edwardian society, writes Vanessa Thorpe

May 2009

  • AS Byatt

    Book of the week
    Her dark materials

    Review: The Children's Book by AS Byatt
    AS Byatt's charged account of the perils of artistic creation chills Alex Clark

  • The danger of losing the plot

    Review: The Children's Book by AS Byatt
    AS Byatt's ambitious novel is fl awed by her need to educate her readers, says Adam Mars-Jones

  • AS Byatt

    Critical eye
    Pasts imperfect

    AS Byatt's The Children's Book, Engels the Frock-Coated Communist and and Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell

April 2009

  • AS Byatt

    A life in ...
    Writing in terms of pleasure

    AS Byatt: In my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers

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