It is a powerful and utterly absorbing modern classic. Epic in sweep, it intimately portrays a luminous but changing world and the ways memory – and myth – can be built and broken. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Stranger’s Child is Hollinghurst’s masterly exploration of English culture, taste and attitudes. 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. The book tells the story of a minor poet, Cecil Valance, who is killed in the First World War. 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. 'The Strangers Child is the fifth novel by Alan Hollinghurst, first published in June 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 Stranger's Child was a Sunday Times Novel of the Year. A century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
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