num_pages: 564
description: From the Man Booker Prizewinning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth and a family mystery across generations.In the late summer of 1913 George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate - a handsome aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance - to his family's modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil and soon his sixteen-year-old sister Daphne is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne's autograph album will change their and their families' lives forever: a poem that after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished will become a touchstone for a generation a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time a tragic love story is spun even as other secrets lie buried - until decades later an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them.Rich with Hollinghurst's signature gifts - haunting sensuality delicious wit and exquisite lyricism - The Stranger's Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire how the heart creates its own history and how legends are made.
language: English
title: The Stranger's Child
publisher: Picador