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Wish You Were Here

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, and reissued for the first time in Scribner, comes a novel called `Profound and powerful . . . an unputdownable read` by Scotland 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 brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brother`s 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… Swift`s small fiction feels like a masterpiece` Guardian `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 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 Swift`s best novel yet` Observer

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