The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst
“It's hard to believe that Hollinghurst is a contemporary novelist. Written with detail and breadth reminiscent of Dickens and echoes of Austen's pre-Victorian romance, intrigue, and satire, The Stranger's Child is the kind of novel that has become an anomaly in the post-modern literary world. It is at once both dense and juicy, filled with …