The Stranger's Child

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 *
Elegant, seductive and extremely enjoyable . . . one of the best novels published this year * Guardian *
Magnificent . . . universally acclaimed as the best novel of the year -- Philip Hensher
Hollinghurst is a master storyteller . . . The Stranger’s Child is to be cherished -- John Banville
Daring . . . Fresh and vital * New York Times Book Review *
Brilliant . . . Hollinghurst [has] a truly Jamesian fineness of perception . . . [He is] one of the best novelists at work today * Wall Street Journal *
Part social history, part social comedy and wholly absorbing, The Stranger’s Child does everything a novel should do and makes it look easy * Washington Post *
Beautifully written, ambitious in its scope and structure, confident in its execution, The Stranger’s Child is a masterclass in the art of the novel * TLS *
The Stranger’s Child is a comedy of manners, exuberantly funny, as well as a literary mystery * Esquire *
Highly entertaining and, as always with Hollinghurst, the dialogue is immaculate and the characterization first class. . . . Every Alan Hollinghurst novel is a cause for celebration, and this spacious, elegant satire is no exception * Sunday Telegraph *
Fabulously involving and rich. It’s also very funny . . . An extraordinary achievement * Spectator *
Elegant . . . affecting, erudite [and written] with tenderness and sensuous immediacy * Observer *
Delightful . . . Tremendously readable and engrossing * Daily Mail *
Perfect . . . Elegant people partying on the edge of the abyss * Financial Times *
Intricate, witty, playful . . . Comedy of manners, investigation of class, changing political and social landscape—all the reliable pleasures that Hollinghurst’s fiction offers are here * Times *
Ambitious, epic and satisfying * Elle *