The Stranger's Child, Alan Hollinghurst

Read on the Kindle - special purchase at 20p.

I had read and enjoyed the Line of Beauty, so when I saw this book on special offer on the Kindle I went ahead and downloaded it.

It's a novel with a broad historic sweep - starting in the early 20th Century, and ending in the current times.

Each section of the book is set in a different time, and the challenge every time the focus shifts is to work out where and when you are, and how everybody is connected.  Events and characters are viewed differently with hindsight, sometimes we know more than the characters in the book, and sometimes they have knowledge we didn't have.

Only spoiled by a slightly downbeat ending, where loose ends were left flapping in the wind, I nevertheless enjoyed this book too.