The Stranger's Child-Alan Hollinghurst

On offer is hand signed hard back 1st edition 1st impression book titled A Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst.The book was signed at the publishers and sold by Waterstones who have placed a sticker on the dust cover stating signed by the author at Waterstones. \n \nSynopsis\n\nIn the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance \ncomes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend \nGeorge Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for \nall the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne \nthat it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem \nwhich will become a touchstone for a generation, an evocation of an \nEngland about to change for ever. Linking the Sawle and Valance families\n irrevocably, the shared intimacies of this weekend become legendary \nevents in a larger story, told and interpreted in different ways over \nthe coming century, and subjected to the scrutiny of critic.