The Stranger's ChildThe Sunday Times Novel of the Year With The Strangers Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular Sunday Times In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, having the most lasting impact on Georges sixteen year old sister Daphne. As the decades pass,

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in the eyes of many of Salsters townspeople

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the play revolves around the relationship between a father and his son

Many Spaniards doubt Britain's motives and believe their future would be brighter if they made peace with the French

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but Alex starts to realise that danger seems to follow her around

It's only when she reaches Phoenix that the pieces fall into place - and Ellen discovers the full horror of what has for so long been kept in the freezing dark - a bloody secret that could blow apart the multi-billion dollar art market

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But as he starts to search for the other pieces of the puzzle

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