The stranger's child
a novel
by Alan Hollinghurst
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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.
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Family secrets, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction, Families, History, Fiction, historical, Fiction, family life, Great britain, social life and customs, fiction, Authors, fiction, London (england), fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, general, Poets, Aristocracy (Social class), Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Family, Secrecy, NEW LIST 20111130, Fiction, historical, general, Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist| Edition | Availability |
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The Stranger's Child
Jul 01, 2011, Pan MacMillan, Brand: Pan MacMillan
paperback
in English
0330513966 9780330513968
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