Mothering Sunday - (Vintage International) by Graham Swift (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, profoundly moving work of fiction that begins with an afternoon tryst in 1924 between a servant girl and the young man of the neighboring house, but then opens to reveal the whole life of a remarkable woman. Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, orphaned at birth, has worked as a maid at one English country estate since she was sixteen. And for almost all of those years she has been the secret lover to Paul Sheringham, the scion of the estate next door. On an unseasonably warm March afternoon, Jane and Paul will make love for the last time--though not, as Jane believes, because Paul is about to be married--and the events of the day will alter Jane's life forever. As the narrative moves back and forth from 1924 to the end of the century, what we know and understand about Jane--about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, remembers--deepens with every beautifully wrought moment. Her story is one of profound self-discovery and through her, Graham Swift has created an emotionally soaring and deeply affecting work of fiction"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the Booker Prize-winning author, an intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life. Soon to be a major motion picture<br></b><br><b>"Exquisite ... shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system." --Kazuo Ishiguro, <i>The</i> <i>Guardian</i></b> <p/>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 affair--but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted. <p/> As the narrative moves back and forth across the twentieth century, what we know and understand about Jane--about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, and remembers--expands with every page. In <i>Mothering Sunday</i>, Swift has crafted an emotionally soaring and profoundly moving work of fiction.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Haunting." --<i>The New York Times<br></i><br>"Exquisite. . . <i>Mothering Sunday</i> shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system." --Kazuo Ishiguro, <i>The</i> <i>Guardian<br></i><br>"A book you'll want to read more than once--and then urge on your friends." --NPR <p/> "An exquisite, emotionally resonant romance." --<i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br> <i> </i><br> "A fairy tale of sexual and intellectual awakening." --<i>The New Yorker</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels; two collections of short stories; and <i>Making an Elephant, </i> a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With <i>Waterland</i> he won The Guardian Fiction Award, and with <i>Last Orders</i> the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has appeared in more than thirty<br> languages.
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