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The Stranger's Child

Alan Hollinghurst

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#1038 of 8,085 books · #178 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2011) and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2012). Also longlisted for 1 other award.

The Stranger's Child was a Sunday Times Novel of the Year and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. A century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyone, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact. As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance and, as reputations rise and fall, the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story. Hollinghurst's masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes is epic in sweep, intimately portraying a luminous but changing world and the ways memory – and myth – can be built and broken.

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Publisher
Picador
ISBN-13
9781447203988
Topics
Memory and myth-makingFamily saga across generationsLove and hidden desire

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