Dream Children

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Title Dream Children

First edition cover
Author A. N. Wilson
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher W. W. Norton
Released August 1998
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 218 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-393-02740-6 (first edition, hardback)

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

Owing to his own early encounters, Oliver Gold, a distinguished philosopher, has decided he can only be happy with a child, ‘a little dream lover’. 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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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.

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