Mothering Sunday: A Romance (Vintage International)

From the Booker Prize-winning author, an intensely moving tale that begins with a secret loversÆ assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life. ò DonÆt miss the major motion picture starring Odessa Young, Josh OÆConnor, ??p?? D?r?s?, Colin Firth, and more ôExquisite ... shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system.ö ùKazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian On an unseasonably warm spring day in the 1920s, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affairùbut events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted. As the narrative moves back and forth across the twentieth century, what we know and understand about Janeùabout the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, and remembersùexpands with every page. In Mothering Sunday, Swift has crafted an emotionally soaring and profoundly moving work of fiction.

Author: Graham Swift

Publisher: Vintage

Publication Date: Jan 10, 2017

Number of Pages: 192 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Fiction

ISBN-10: 110197172X

ISBN-13: 9781101971727