Dream Children 4579435 206871557 2008-04-20T12:15:19Z JzG 760284 cleaning up after move war using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] {{infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Dream Children | orig title = | translator = | image = [[Image:dream-children.jpg|200px]] | image_caption = First edition cover | author = [[A. N. Wilson]] | cover_artist = | country = [[United Kingdom]] | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | 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) | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''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]] {{1990s-novel-stub}} [[Category:1998 novels]] [[Category:Novels by A. N. Wilson]]