Alan Hollinghurst is the author of several novels including The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty and The Stranger's Child. 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.
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