The Children Barbara Notarius New York Times bestselling author

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The Children Barbara Notarius New York Times bestselling authorA bestseller when it was first published in 1928, Edith Wharton's The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent like bundles, are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary forty six year old Martin Boyne