| First edition cover | |
| Author | A. N. Wilson |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Publication date | August 1998 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Hardback and paperback |
| Pages | 218 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-393-02740-6 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 39050887 |
| 823/.914 21 | |
| LC Class | PR6073.I439 D7 1998 |
Dream Children is a 1998 novel by A. N. Wilson. [1]
Owing to his own early encounters, Oliver Gold, a distinguished philosopher, has decided he can only be happy with a child. Oliver, however, moves in with a widow in North London. He makes all the ladies around him fall in love with him, from the aging matriarch to a pair of lesbian lovers to a little girl named Bobs. Bobs is aged three when Oliver moves in and is aged ten by the end of the book.
Dream Children was published by W. W. Norton & Company on August 1, 1998. [2]
The book received positive reception upon release. Kirkus Reviews described the book as being timely and disturbing in equal measure. [2] Publishers Weekly was mostly positive but argued that it lacked "the brilliant consistency of vision of Lolita ." [3]