FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, and reissued for the first time in Scribner, comes a novel called âProfound and powerful . . . an unputdownable readâ by Scotland on Sunday.
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton â former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park â receives the news that his brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.
For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brotherâs remains, but also to return to the land of his past and confront his most secret, troubling memories.
Praise for Mothering Sunday:
'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly⌠Swiftâs small fiction feels like a masterpieceâ Guardian
âAlive with sensuousness and sensuality ⌠wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievementâ Sunday Times
âFrom start to finish Swiftâs 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 gameâ Evening Standard
âMothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives â the parallel stories â we can never know ⌠It may just be Swiftâs best novel yetâ Observer