Review: The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
ALREADY tipped as book of the year, The Stranger’s Child opens in 1913 when poet Cecil Valance, a Rupert Brooke figure, pays a visit to his close friend George Sawle and writes an enduring poem to his sister Daphne.
This ambitious, exquisitely written novel explores their families’ intertwined fortunes over the course of a tumultuous century.
(Picador, £20)