FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING MOTHERING SUNDAY AND LAST
ORDERS, and reissued for the first time on the Scribner list, this
is an intensely moving novel about a night that will change one
family beyond recognition. On a June night Paula, a successful art
dealer, lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep
beside her. In nearby rooms their twin teenage children, Nick and
Kate, sleep too. The next day, Paula knows, will define all their
lives. As dawn approaches, Paula recalls the years before and after
her children were born. Her story is both a celebration of love
possessed and a moving acknowledgement of the fear of loss, of the
fragilities on which even our most inward sense of who we are can
rest. Graham Swift's apparently most domestic book is that rare
thing in fiction, a novel about happiness, though a happiness that
is not all that it seems. An intimate and tender tale of a
marriage, a family and a home, it begins to embrace big themes:
nature and nurture, the illusory and the real. 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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