The Stranger's Child
27 June 2011Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
With an introduction by Anthony Quinn.
The Stranger's Child was a Sunday Times Novel of the Year.
In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of...
Details
27 June 2011576 pages
9781447203988Imprint: Picador
Reviews
With The Stranger’s Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacularSunday Times
I would compare the novel to Middlemarch . . . a remarkable, unmissable achievementIndependent
Elegant, seductive and extremely enjoyable . . . one of the best novels published this yearGuardian
Magnificent . . . universally acclaimed as the best novel of the yearPhilip Hensher
