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Book SynopsisAlan 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.
Trade ReviewWith
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 *
