Wish You Were Here 9781471161988 Paperback

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFLAST ORDERSANDMOTHERING SUNDAY,andreissuedfor the first time in Scribner, comes a novel calledProfound and powerful . . . an unputdownable read byScotland on Sunday.On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight,Jack Luxton former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park receives the news that his brotherTom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.For Jack and his wifeElliethis will have a potentially catastrophic impact and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brothers 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 Swifts small fiction feels like a masterpieceGuardianAlive with sensuousness and sensuality wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievementSunday TimesFrom start to finish Swifts 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 gameEvening StandardMothering Sundayis 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 yetObserver