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The stranger's child a novel

In 1913, George Sawle brings charming, handsome Cecil Valance to his family's modest home outside London for a summer weekend. George is enthralled by his Cambridge schoolmate, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by both Cecil and the stories he tells about Corley Court...

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Main Author: Hollinghurst, Alan
Other Authors: Wilson, James Daniel
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language:English
Published: New York : Books on Tape, 2011.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction.
Families > England > London > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Families > History > Fiction.
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Love stories.
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Summary:In 1913, George Sawle brings charming, handsome Cecil Valance to his family's modest home outside London for a summer weekend. George is enthralled by his Cambridge schoolmate, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by both Cecil and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne's autograph album will change their and their families' lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will be 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.
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Unabridged.
Duration: 19:52:13.
Playing Time:19:52:13
Format:Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 285559 KB; MP3 file size: 558988 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780307966612
0307966615
Author Notes:Alan Hollinghurst is the author of the novels The Stranger's Child, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He lives in London.

James Daniel Wilson is an English actor, voice artist, and writer. His voice can be heard on such animated movies as Gnomeo & Juliet and Minions . He has narrated several audiobooks, including Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child , John Boyne's Crippen , and Herbie Brennan's The Ruler of the Realm.

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