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| name = Dream Children
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| image = [[Image:dream-children.jpg|200px]]
| image_caption = First edition cover
| author = [[A. N. Wilson]]
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| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
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| genre = [[Novel]]
| publisher = [[W. W. Norton]]
| release_date = August 1998
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages = 218 pp (first edition, hardback)
| isbn = ISBN 0-393-02740-6 (first edition, hardback)
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'''''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.
==Plot summary==
[[Pedophilia|Paedophilia]], is at the heart of the story. Oliver Gold's pure thoughts, and seemingly [[asexuality|asexual]] life contrast with the reality of his desires and deeds. Oliver [[child sexual abuse|abuses]] Bobs over a long period.
==See also==
*[[Pedophilia]]
*[[List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors]]
*[[Child sexual abuse]]
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[[Category:1998 novels]]
[[Category:Novels by A. N. Wilson]]