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The Children
A Literary Fiction Novel by Edith Wharton
Subgenres:
- Comedy,
- Family Drama,
- Transatlantic
This book is for you if you're into...
- Runaway kids upending a grown man's careful plans
- Found family vibes with a dash of comic misadventure
- Travel stories where unlikely connections spark big changes
In this comic novel by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a bachelor on a transatlantic cruise meets a group of runaway children who change his life forever.
Martin Boyne is a cautious man of forty-six. The bachelor has been nursing a relationship with a widow for five years, and now he is crossing the Atlantic to be with her. He laments that he never meets interesting people in his travels, but that is about to change . . .
The seven precocious Wheater siblings, traveling with their nanny, are running away from their parents. Their mother and father are always breaking up and reconciling, shuffling the children back and forth, and they have had enough. They simply want to be together . . .
Moved by the children's plight and knowing of their parents, Boyne decides to help them as best he can. It is time to throw caution to the wind, and everyone, including Boyne, just may be better for it . . .
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