The Children

Guinevere has two childhoods. In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family's isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of their mother's world-famous Ninth City books. In reality, Guinevere's childhood isn't the enchanted idyll her mother's readers imagine. As Edith's books explode into epic popularity, the threats of a rural childhood give way to the escalating perils of fame until the night it all goes up in flames.