"Remarkable. . . . Daring. . . . Fresh and vital." --The New York Times Book Review

"Hollinghurst is a master storyteller. . . . For the daring of its setting out, and for the consistent flash and fire of the writing, The Stranger's Child is to be cherished." --John Banville, The New Republic

"At once classically literary and delightfully, subversively modern. . . . It's a thrilling, enchanting work of art." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Brilliant. . . . Hollinghurst [has] a truly Jamesian fineness of perception. . . . [He is] one of the best novelists at work today." --The Wall Street Journal

"A sly and ravishing masterpiece." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Magnificent. . . . Hollinghurst explores how a living, breathing existence can become a biographical subject riddled with omissions and distortions. . . . His immersion in each period is fluid and free of false notes, collectively fusing into a single symphonic epic. . . . A beautifully written, brilliantly observed and masterfully orchestrated novel." --The Seattle Times

"Hollinghurst writes with the relaxed elegance and unobtrusive charm of a Cary Grant. Part social history, part social comedy and wholly absorbing, The Stranger's Child does everything a novel should do and makes it look easy." --The Washington Post

"Vibrant. . . . Sparkling. . . . Witty and ultimately very moving. . . . There are echoes of E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen and others, but The Stranger's Child is a Great English Novel in its own right, and a tantalizing read."
--Newsday

"Masterful. . . . Psychologically penetrating. . . . Hollinghurst is a superior novelist of manners, and the brilliance of The Stranger's Child is in how it reveals the ways bad blood and secrets muck with history."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Beautifully written, ambitious in its scope and structure, confident in its execution, The Stranger's Child is a masterclass in the art of the novel."
--The Times Literary Supplement

"Hollinghurst writes like Henry James, but without the obfuscation; his gorgeous sentences home in on the delicate nuances of human relationships but don't sacrifice the larger social canvas along the way." --Chicago Tribune

"Hollinghurst imaginatively insists that our literary tradition would be unrecognizably depleted without the submerged current of homosexuality. . . . The Stranger's Child itself is the culmination of not only Hollinghurst's ambition but that secret literary tradition to which it is addressed." --Geoff Dyer, New York Magazine

"Charming. . . . Perfect. . . . Hollinghurst writes so carefully and subversively, often with one eyebrow raised in sardonic amusement as he satirizes the excesses of his mostly high-born protagonists." --Financial Times