{"product_id":"9781471155246","title":"Graham Swift - Mothering Sunday","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Graham Swift. Themes include Fiction, Romance, Historical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow a major film starring Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Odessa Young and Josh O'connor (The Crown), scripted by Alice Birch (Normal People)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eExquisite\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eMothering Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e shows love, lust and ordinary decency straining against the bars of an unjust English caste system' \u003cb\u003eKazuo Ishiguro\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, \u003ci\u003eMothering Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e has at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMothering Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e '\u003ci\u003eMothering Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives - the parallel stories - we can never know ... It \u003cb\u003emay just be Swift's best novel yet\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Dazzling . . . a vanished world is resurrected with superb immediacy . . . \u003cb\u003ewonderfully accomplished\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Stunning . . . It is about the most perfect novel you could wish to read' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'From start to finish Swift's is a novel of \u003cb\u003estylish brilliance\u003c\/b\u003e and quiet narrative verve . . . Swift is a writer at the very top of his game' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From the Booker-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLast Orders\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWaterland\u003c\/i\u003e comes a long-awaited new novel. '\u003ci\u003eMothering Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e is bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly... Swift's small fiction \u003cb\u003efeels like a masterpiece' \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e '\u003cb\u003eMastery and resonance\u003c\/b\u003e . . . It's one of the novel's great strengths to be able to shift with such agility between focus scene and lifetime recollection . . . the languid, blissful minutes of March 30, 1924 seem to contain all the succeeding decades'\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Times Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A \u003cb\u003edazzling\u003c\/b\u003e read: sexy, stylish, subversive' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerald Scotland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A \u003cb\u003ejewel of a book\u003c\/b\u003e, a subtle, erotically charged novella suspended between past and future' \u003cb\u003eHermione Lee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A \u003cb\u003ework of gold\u003c\/b\u003e from the subtle pen of the great Graham Swift' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'With this novel \u003cb\u003ehe captures what it means to be alive\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDer Spiegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'An \u003cb\u003eexquisite\u003c\/b\u003e novella of love and loss . . . a short yet powerful and intricately layered work . . . every sentence counting and \u003cb\u003enot a word out of place\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58579976028534,"sku":null,"price":8.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9781471155246.jpg?v=1788192768","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9781471155246","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}