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    "description": "<p>From the Man Booker Prize&ndash;winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate&mdash;a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance&mdash;to his family&rsquo;s modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne&rsquo;s autograph album will change their and their families&rsquo; lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will become a touchstone for a generation, a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried&mdash;until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them. Rich with Hollinghurst&rsquo;s signature gifts&mdash;haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism&mdash;The Stranger&rsquo;s Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made.</p>",
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