From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly new novel that spans seven transformative decades in England – from the 1940s to the present – as it plumbs the richly complex relationships of a remarkable family. 

Mr Hollinghurst’s great gift as a novelist is for social satire as sharp and transparent as glass, catching his quarry from an angle just an inch to the left of the view they themselves would catch in the mantelpiece mirror.
The New York Observer

Few writers’ prose can throw a party as easily as retire to the library as Hollinghurst’s.
Spectator

Hollinghurst has a strong, perhaps unassailable claim to be the best English novelist working today.
Guardian

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of the novels The Stranger’s Child, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, and The Line of Beauty, which won the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the EM Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

The Sparsholt Affair is a study in human transience and the countervailing longing for permanence and continuity. As in The Stranger’s Child, Hollinghurst’s exploration of shifting taste, class and human interaction is wonderfully witty, tender and rich in observation. An unmissable achievement that will be cherished by lifelong fans and new readers alike.

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