num_pages: 370
description: A bestseller when it was first published, The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary 46-year old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters.
language: English
title: The Children
titlecomplete: The Children
characters: Martin Boyne, Rose Sellars, Judith Wheater
genres: 20th Century, American, Female Authors, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 846
publisher: Virago