Publisher |
Pan Macmillan |
Publication Year |
2010 |
ISBN-13 |
9780330518185 |
ISBN-10 |
9780330518185 |
Binding |
Paperback |
Number of Pages |
256 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
Dimensions (Cms) |
13 x 1.6 x 19.8 |
Weight (grms) |
209 |
This is Graham Swift at his impressive best’ Times Literary Supplement On a midsummer’s night, Paula lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her, her two teenage children, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will define all their lives. As morning 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, the fragilities, illusions and secrets on which even our most intimate sense of who we are can rest. ‘Paula talks the way that people actually talk . . . this is part of Swift’s overwhelming honesty as a writer: he writes the way that life goes’ Anne Enright, Guardian ‘The rhythms of long-term partnership become the rhymes of the narrative itself . . .
Graham Swift
Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of many acclaimed novels, two collections of short stories (England and Other Stories, and Learning to Swim 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 (1983), and with Last Orders the Booker Prize (1996). Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.
Graham Swift
Pan Macmillan