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The Stranger's Child

✍ Scribed by Hollinghurst, Alan

Publisher: Macmillan Publishers UK;Picador
Year: 2011;2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 375 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

"In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at {8216}Two Acres{8217}, the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem which will become a touchstone for a generation, an evocation of an England about to change for ever. Linking the Sawle and Valance families irrevocably, the shared intimacies of this weekend become legendary events in a larger story, told and interpreted in different ways over the coming century, and subjected to the scrutiny of critics and biographers with their own agendas and anxieties. In a sequence of widely separated episodes we follow the two families through startling changes in fortune and circumstance." -- From the publisher.

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