Description
From the Booker Prize-winning author, an intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life. - Don't miss the major motion picture starring Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Colin Firth, and more
"Exquisite ... shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system." --Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian
On an unseasonably warm spring day in the 1920s, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair--but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted. As the narrative moves back and forth across the twentieth century, what we know and understand about Jane--about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, and remembers--expands with every page. In Mothering Sunday, Swift has crafted an emotionally soaring and profoundly moving work of fiction.
Author: Graham Swift
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/10/2017
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781101971727
ISBN10: 110197172X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | 20th Century
"Exquisite ... shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system." --Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian
On an unseasonably warm spring day in the 1920s, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair--but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted. As the narrative moves back and forth across the twentieth century, what we know and understand about Jane--about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, and remembers--expands with every page. In Mothering Sunday, Swift has crafted an emotionally soaring and profoundly moving work of fiction.
Author: Graham Swift
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/10/2017
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781101971727
ISBN10: 110197172X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | 20th Century
About the Author
Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels; two collections of short stories; and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won The Guardian Fiction Award, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has appeared in more than thirty
languages.