The Stranger’s Child

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With an introduction by Anthony Quinn.The Stranger''s Child was Sunday Times

Novel of the Year in 2011.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 Hollinghurst''s masterly exploration of English culture, taste and

attitudes. Epic in sweep, it intimately portrays a luminous but changing

world and the ways memory – and myth – can be built and broken. It is a

powerful and utterly absorbing modern classic.