The Stranger's Child is Alan Hollinghurst's 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. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, having the most lasting impact on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne.

As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance, reputations rise and fall, secrets are revealed and hidden and the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story, told and interpreted in different ways by successive generations.

Powerful, absorbing and richly comic, The Stranger's Child is a masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes over a century of change.

About the Author
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell and The Line of Beauty. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.

Reviews
With The Stranger's Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular. * Sunday Times *
I would compare the novel to Middlemarch . . . a remarkable, unmissable achievement. * Independent *
Magnificent . . . universally acclaimed as the best novel of the year. -- Philip Hensher


Awards
Short-listed for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2012 (UK). Long-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 (Ireland) and Man Booker Prize 2011 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9780330483278
Author Alan Hollinghurst
Format Paperback
Page Count 576
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 393g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 35mm