Winner of the Galaxy UK Author of the Year Award 2011.
This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. As in The Line of Beauty, his impeccably nuanced exploration of changing taste, class and social etiquette is conveyed in deliciously witty and observant prose. Exposing our secret longings to the shocks and surprises of time, The Stranger's Child is an enthralling novel from one of the finest writers in the English language.
At the centre of this often richly comic history of sexual mores and literary reputation runs the story of Daphne, from innocent girlhood to wary old age. Around her Hollinghurst draws an absorbing picture of an England constantly in flux.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.
A century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.With an introduction by Anthony Quinn.The Stranger's Child was a Sunday Times Novel of the Year.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.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Stranger's Child is Alan Hollinghurst's masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes. It intimately portrays a luminous but changing world and the ways memory - and myth - can be built and broken. A powerful and utterly absorbing modern classic.
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A century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.With an introduction by Anthony Quinn.The Stranger's Child was a Sunday Times Novel of the Year.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.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Stranger's Child is Alan Hollinghurst's masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes.
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The Stranger's Child was written by Alan Hollinghurst and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
The Stranger's Child has 592 pages
Yes it is part of Picador Classic series
