Wish You Were Here Paperback / softback
by GRAHAM SWIFT
Paperback / softback
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, and reissued for the first time in Scribner, comes a novel called ‘Profound and powerful . . . an unputdownable read’ by Scotland on Sunday. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton – former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park – receives the news that his brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brother’s remains, but also to return to the land of his past and confront his most secret, troubling memories. Praise for Mothering Sunday: 'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly… Swift’s small fiction feels like a masterpiece’ Guardian ‘Alive with sensuousness and sensuality … wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement’ Sunday Times ‘From start to finish Swift’s is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve.
The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read.
Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game’ Evening Standard ‘Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives – the parallel stories – we can never know … It may just be Swift’s best novel yet’ Observer
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication Date:20/09/2018
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- ISBN:9781471161988
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication Date:20/09/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781471161988