Dream ChildrenDream Children is a 1998 novel by A. N. Wilson.Plot summaryOwing 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.PublicationDevelopmentDream Children was published by W. W. Norton & Company on August 1, 1998.ReceptionThe book received positive reception upon release. Kirkus Reviews described the book as being timely and disturbing in equal measure. Publishers Weekly was mostly positive but argued that it lacked "the brilliant consistency of vision of Lolita."