The Stranger's Child

  • The Stranger's Child
    The Stranger's Child
    By Alan Hollinghurst

    “I'm sure you were kind to her," said Robin, a touch cautiously. “Well, I didn't do much . . . you know . ... “V/ell, I'm very glad to meet you. You see, I'm hoping to interview her, ... I worked under Leslie Keeping For several years.

  • The Stranger's Child
    The Stranger's Child
    By Alan Hollinghurst

    ... and then squatted down with a wary cackle to inspect them for a moment on their own level. Madeleine, wrapped in a long mackintosh, held back, with a thin fixed smile, in which various doubts and questions were tightly hidden.

  • The Stranger's Child
    The Stranger's Child
    By Alan Hollinghurst

    Like The Line of Beauty, this is a deliciously funny novel, glittering with acute observation and arch insight into the worlds of those who belong and of those who are excluded, of carefully hidden secrets which are finally, dramatically ...

  • The Stranger's Child
    The Stranger's Child
    By Alan Hollinghurst

    Embraced by the family of his Cambridge schoolmate, Cecil Valance writes an inspiring poem in an autograph album that becomes a staple of every English classroom after he is killed during World War I. By the Man Booker Prize-winning author ...

  • The Stranger's Child: Picador Classic
    The Stranger's Child: Picador Classic
    By Alan Hollinghurst

    It is a powerful and utterly absorbing modern classic.'Hollinghurst is a master storyteller . . . The Stranger's Child is to be cherished' John Banville 'Elegant, seductive and extremely enjoyable . . . stunning' Guardian