It is March 30th 1924.
It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold?
Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothering Sundayhas at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain.
Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best.
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Graham Swift was born in 1949. He is the author of eleven novels, most recently Here We Are; three collections of short stories, including the highly praised England and Other 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 Prize and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Mothering Sunday became a worldwide bestseller and won the Hawthornden Prize for best work of imaginative literature. All three novels were made into films. His books have appeared in over thirty-five languages.
It is March 30th 1924.
It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold?
Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothering Sundayhas at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain.
Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best.
It is March 30th 1924.
It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold?
Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothering Sundayhas at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain.
Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best.
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. ***LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE*** From the Booker-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland comes a long-awaitednew novel. Mothering Sunday is bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly Swifts small fiction feels like a masterpiece TheGuardian It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothering Sunday has at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best. Praise forMothering Sunday: 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 Swifts best novel yetTheObserver 'Dazzling . . . a vanished world is resurrected with superb immediacy . . . wonderfully accomplished'Sunday Times 'Stunning . . . It is about the most perfect novel you could wish to read'The Guardian 'From start to finish Swift's is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve . . . Swift is a writer at the very top of his game'Evening Standard 'Exquisite . . .Mothering Sundayshows love, lust and ordinary decency straining against the bars of an unjust English caste system'Kazuo Ishiguro Mastery and resonance . . . Its one of the novels great strengths to be able to shift with such agility between focus scene and lifetime recollection . . . the languid, blissful minutes of March 30, 1924 seem to contain all the succeeding decadesTimes Literary Supplement 'A dazzling read: sexy, stylish, subversive'Herald Scotland 'A jewel of a book, a subtle, erotically charged novella suspended between past and future'Hermione Lee 'A work of gold from the subtle pen of the great Graham Swift'Le Monde 'With this novel he captures what it means to be alive'Der Spiegel An exquisite novella of love and loss . . . a short yet powerful and intricately layered work . . . every sentence counting and not a word out of place The Australian. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Artikel-Nr. GOR007314788
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