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Condition: Fair. Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize It is the late summer of the last year before the first Great War. Cecil Valance, a beautiful young aristocratic poet, is visiting Two Acres, the home of his Cambridge friend and lover, George Sawle. On his departure, Cecil leaves a poem, dedicated to George's younger sister Daphne, which when published becomes a touchstone for a generation, symbolizing an England in its final glory. Meanwhile Daphne has also become involved with Cecil's family, visiting their Victorian Gothic country house, Corley, and developing a relationship with Cecil's brooding, manipulative brother, Dudley, that will link the families for ever. The Stranger's Child begins as a novel about two families and two houses: by the time it reaches its profound and moving conclusion, it has become an epic tale told in five parts covering almost a hundred years. Like The Line of Beauty, this is a deliciously funny novel, glittering with acute observation and arch insight into the worlds of those who belong and of those who are excluded, of carefully hidden secrets which are finally, dramatically revealed.; paperback met schoon en fris binnenwerk; rand onderkant voorplat met schaafwondje. …

Condition: Good. Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since The Line of Beauty, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize It is the late summer of the last year before the first Great War. Cecil Valance, a beautiful young aristocratic poet, is visiting Two Acres, the home of his Cambridge friend and lover, George Sawle. On his departure, Cecil leaves a poem, dedicated to George's younger sister Daphne, which when published becomes a touchstone for a generation, symbolizing an England in its final glory. Meanwhile Daphne has also become involved with Cecil's family, visiting their Victorian Gothic country house, Corley, and developing a relationship with Cecil's brooding, manipulative brother, Dudley, that will link the families for ever. The Stranger's Child begins as a novel about two families and two houses: by the time it reaches its profound and moving conclusion, it has become an epic tale told in five parts covering almost a hundred years. Like The Line of Beauty, this is a deliciously funny novel, glittering with acute observation and arch insight into the worlds of those who belong and of those who are excluded, of carefully hidden secrets which are finally, dramatically revealed. …

Condition: Good. First Edition. Where dark secrets lurk behind every door . . . The House of Dolls is the first title in the Detective Pieter Vos series, David Hewson's atmospheric crime novels set in the city of canals and coffee shops. Three years ago, sixteen-year-old Anneliese, daughter of detective Pieter Vos, disappeared in mysterious circumstances, leaving her father distraught. Pieter's desperate search revealed nothing and resulted in his departure from the police force. He now lives on a dilapidated houseboat in the colourful Amsterdam region of the Jordaan, with only his dog for company. Laura Bakker is a young misfit trainee detective and when she hears that Katja Prins, daughter of an important local politician, has gone missing in similar circumstances to Anneliese, she goes to see Vos. Vos finds himself drawn back into the role of detective, hoping against hope to unearth a clue that might lead him to the fate of Anneliese. The daughter he blames himself for losing. Praise for David Hewson 'Has turned TV gold into literary gold' DailyTelegraph 'Hewson's style is tight, lean, almost like a film script' Daily Express 'Clear, clipped prose is beautifully up to the task' Daily Mirror 'Compelling reading' Observer 'A fast-paced crime novel that's five-star from start to finish' Irish Examiner; Leesvouwtjes in de rug.…

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