Dream Children Explained

Dream Children
Author:A. N. Wilson
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Genre:Novel
Publisher:W. W. Norton
Release Date:August 1998
Media Type:Hardback and paperback
Pages:218 pp (first edition, hardback)
Isbn:0-393-02740-6
Isbn Note:(first edition, hardback)
Dewey:823/.914 21
Congress:PR6073.I439 D7 1998
Oclc:39050887

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. 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.

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.