About the Author

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of four previous novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell and The Line of Beauty. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.

Reviews

With The Stranger’s Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular.
*Sunday Times*

I would compare the novel to Middlemarch . . . a remarkable, unmissable achievement.
*Independent*

Magnificent . . . universally acclaimed as the best novel of the year.
*Philip Hensher*

With The Stranger's Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular. * Sunday Times *
I would compare the novel to Middlemarch . . . a remarkable, unmissable achievement. * Independent *
Magnificent . . . universally acclaimed as the best novel of the year. -- Philip Hensher