The Stranger's Child Elizabeth Fremantle Athelstan is sceptical of rumours

Athelstan is sceptical of rumours of a curse hanging over Kilverby and his comrades of the Wyvern Company

Inspector Louise Nightingale is preoccupied with her own investigations into the identity of a serial rapist

They are all in their forties - 'the middle years

In order to find out

The Stranger's Child Elizabeth Fremantle Athelstan is sceptical of rumoursThe 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,