The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst

The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst

The No.1 bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning 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.

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 *
Elegant, seductive and extremely enjoyable . . . one of the best novels published this year * Guardian *
Magnificent . . . universally acclaimed as the best novel of the year -- Philip Hensher
Hollinghurst is a master storyteller . . . The Stranger’s Child is to be cherished -- John Banville
Daring . . . Fresh and vital * New York Times Book Review *
Brilliant . . . Hollinghurst [has] a truly Jamesian fineness of perception . . . [He is] one of the best novelists at work today * Wall Street Journal *
Part social history, part social comedy and wholly absorbing, The Stranger’s Child does everything a novel should do and makes it look easy * Washington Post *
Beautifully written, ambitious in its scope and structure, confident in its execution, The Stranger’s Child is a masterclass in the art of the novel * TLS *
The Stranger’s Child is a comedy of manners, exuberantly funny, as well as a literary mystery * Esquire *
Highly entertaining and, as always with Hollinghurst, the dialogue is immaculate and the characterization first class. . . . Every Alan Hollinghurst novel is a cause for celebration, and this spacious, elegant satire is no exception * Sunday Telegraph *
Fabulously involving and rich. It’s also very funny . . . An extraordinary achievement * Spectator *
Elegant . . . affecting, erudite [and written] with tenderness and sensuous immediacy * Observer *
Delightful . . . Tremendously readable and engrossing * Daily Mail *
Perfect . . . Elegant people partying on the edge of the abyss * Financial Times *
Intricate, witty, playful . . . Comedy of manners, investigation of class, changing political and social landscape—all the reliable pleasures that Hollinghurst’s fiction offers are here * Times *
Ambitious, epic and satisfying * Elle *

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty, The Stranger's Child and The Sparsholt Affair. 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.

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ISBN 13	9781035028009
ISBN 10	103502800X
Title	The Stranger's Child
Author	Alan Hollinghurst
Series	Picador Collection
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2023-10-19
Number of pages	576
Prizes	Short-listed for Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2012 (UK), Long-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 (Ireland), Long-listed for Man Booker Prize 2011 (UK)
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