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Tag: 2011

Tag: 2011

THE STRANGER’S CHILD by ALAN HOLLINGHURST

THE STRANGER’S CHILD by ALAN HOLLINGHURST
christine 2011 / Europe & the Middle East / Fiction / Reviews / UK 1 January 2012 18 May 2020 Leave a comment

The first review of a shiny new year, and it has to begin with a confession. “The Stranger’s Child” was the first book by Alan Hollinghurst that I have read, which must therefore make me rather a literary lightweight, I imagine.  But what a first meeting with someone who will …

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THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by JULIAN BARNES

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by JULIAN BARNES
christine 2011 / Europe & the Middle East / Fiction / Reviews / UK 3 November 2011 18 May 2020 2 Comments

Confession time first.To my shame, I had never read any Julian Barnes until my Delhi book club selected his (now Booker prize winning) novella The Sense of an Ending. It was short listed when we decided to read it, and had won by the time we met. Second confession. I …

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