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The Stranger's Child

The Stranger's Child

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction
Pages
563
Published
2011
Language
English

Synopsis

In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's 16-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact.Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.

Genres

Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

About the author

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Alan Hollinghurst

Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1954. He studied English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and has published seven novels since his 1988 debut, The Swimming-Pool Library, credited with helping bring gay-themed fiction into the literary mainstream. His other novels include The Folding Star, The Line of Beauty, The Stranger's Child, The Sparsholt Affair and Our Evenings.