Mothering Sunday

From the Booker-winning author of "Last Orders" and "Waterland" comes a staggering new novel. 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.

«"Mothering Sunday" is bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly… Swift’s small fiction feels like a masterpiece.»
Guardian

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.

«"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

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels, two collections of short stories, including the highly acclaimed England and Other Stories, and of Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. His most recent novel, Mothering Sunday, became an international bestseller and won The Hawthornden Prize for best work of imaginative literature. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels were made into films. His work has appeared in over thirty languages.

PRODUCT DETAILS

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner UK; 1st edition (9 Mar. 2017)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 150 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781471155246
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1471155246
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.1 x 1.4 x 19.8 cm