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The Stranger's Child
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A National Book Critics Award finalist from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century In the summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate--a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance--to his family's home outside London. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him. That weekend, Cecil writes a poem that, after he 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.Customers Also Bought
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- ISBN-13: 9780307474346
- ISBN-10: 0307474348
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: September 2012
- Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 448
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