LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE From the Booker-winning author of Last Orders & Waterland comes a long-awaited new novel
- Mothering Sunday is bathed in light; & even when tragedy strikes it blazes irresistibly Swift's small fiction feels like a masterpiece' Guardian It is March 30th 1924 It is Mothering Sunday How will Jane Fairchild orphan & 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? Beginning with an intimate assignation & opening to embrace decades Mothering Sunday has at its heart both the story of a life & the life that stories can magically contain Constantly surprising joyously sensual & deeply moving it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best Mothering Sunday is a powerful philosophical & exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead & the parallel lives
- the parallel stories
- we can never know It may just be Swift's best novel yet' Observer