Dream Children

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Dream Children
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First edition cover
Author A. N. Wilson
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
Publisher W. W. Norton
Publication date
August 1998
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typeHardback and paperback
Pages218 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]

Plot summary

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.

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Publication

Development

Dream Children was published by W. W. Norton & Company on August 1, 1998. [2]

Reception

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]

References

  1. Waugh, Auberon (May 1998). "A Noble Stand from a Very Clever Novelist". Literary Review . Retrieved 1 November 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Dream Children". Kirkus Reviews . 1 June 1998. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
  3. "Dream Children". Publishers Weekly . 3 August 1998. Retrieved 2 November 2025.