Dream Children

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
First edition cover
AuthorA. N. Wilson
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherW. W. Norton
Publication date
August 1998
Media typeHardback and paperback
Pages218 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN0-393-02740-6 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC39050887
823/.914 21
LC ClassPR6073.I439 D7 1998

Dream Children is a 1998 novel by A. N. Wilson.

Plot summary

Paedophilia is at the heart of the story. Oliver Gold's pure thoughts, and seemingly asexual life contrast with the reality of his desires and deeds. Oliver abuses Bobs over a long period.

gollark: It might work if you could make it really easy somehow.
gollark: If you make it substantially more annoying to switch to then it probably won't work well.
gollark: I do need to go shower and stuff at some point, probably soon as it seems like stuff isn't active now.
gollark: Oh no, how terrible.
gollark: Also public with some sort of warning.
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