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In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact, when Cecil writes her a poem which will become a touchstone for a generation, an evocation of an England about to change for ever. Linking the Sawle and Valance families irrevocably, the shared intimacies of this weekend become legendary events in a larger story, told and interpreted in different ways over the coming century, and subjected to the scrutiny of critics and biographers with their own agendas and anxieties.
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Family secrets, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction, Families, History, Fiction, historical, Fiction, family life, Great britain, social life and customs, fiction, Authors, fiction, London (england), fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, general, Poets, Aristocracy (Social class), Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Family, Secrecy, NEW LIST 20111130, Fiction, historical, generalShowing 10 featured editions. View all 10 editions?
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The Stranger's Child
Jul 01, 2011, Pan MacMillan, Brand: Pan MacMillan
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0330513966 9780330513968
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Standard print ed. originally published: London : Picador, 2011.
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In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate--a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance--to his family'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's autograph album will change their and their families' 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--until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them.
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