Mothering Sunday (Hardback)

'Alive with sensuousness and sensuality...wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement' * Sunday Times *
'From start to finish Swift's 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 game' * Evening Standard *
'Mothering Sunday is, like everything Swift writes, quite unlike anything Swift has written before, and subtly teasing' * The Times *
'Swift's novella is a telling snapshot of a society struggling with the death toll of World War I, and cleverly pinpoints the fractures in the class system' * Mail on Sunday *
'Mothering Sunday is...a Conradian homage to a well-spring of inspiration...you can heard his master's voice echoing through the pages of this deceptively fine novel' * Independent *
'With a clear focus on the possibilities of the short form, Graham Swift achieves a delicate harmony between the cool detachment of the narrative voice and the intensity of emotion conveyed on every page. This is a rare read indeed' * Spectator *
'Love and death and much in between are expertly handled in this short but powerful novella' * Daily Mail *
'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: "All the scenes. All the scenes that never occur, but wait in the wings of possibility." It may just be Swift's best novel yet' * Observer *
'Mothering Sunday is bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly... Swift's small fiction feels like a masterpiece' * Guardian *
'Swift has written a book that is not just his most moving and intricate but his most engrossing too' * Financial Times Weekend *