The Rupert Trunk
Christopher Tayler: Alan Hollinghurst, 28 July 2011
The Stranger’s Child
by Alan Hollinghurst.
Picador, 565 pp., £20, June 2011,978 0 330 48324 7 Show More
by Alan Hollinghurst.
Picador, 565 pp., £20, June 2011,
“... to James Strachey, Brooke describes some encounters with his fellow Rugbeian Denham Russell-Smith: We had hugged & kissed & strained, Denham & I, on & off for years – ever since that quiet evening I rubbed him, in the dark, speechlessly, in the smaller of the two Small Dorms. An abortive affair, as I told you. But in the summer holidays of 1906 ... ”