This might all seem funny if the author of "Telling Time" were writing realistic fiction.

Writers of realistic fiction, and quite prolific, I believe.

But there are big themes of realistic fiction as well.

In schools, what's seen as reading is so narrow: it's literary, realistic fiction.

Robinson Crusoe marked the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre.

I think there is a great deal of truth in this view of both realistic fiction and fairy stories.

Most of her novels are in the fantasy genre, but she has also written realistic fiction.

Not only have civil rights been suspended in this novel, the rules of realistic fiction have too.

For the last few years, she has been writing contemporary realistic fiction about children growing up in Britain.

But if it was good realistic fiction, like I suspect, it would be a couple thousand pages with nothing on them.