Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
Time Out Novel of the Year `Astonishingly moving’ Sunday Express 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. Building to a fiercely suspenseful climax, Wish You Were Here is a hauntingly compassionate story that allows us to feel the stuff of headlines as heart-wrenching personal truth. `Profound and powerful . . . an unputdownable read’ Scotland on Sunday `A wonderful writer’ Daily Telegraph
Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of many acclaimed novels, two collections of short stories (England and Other Stories, and Learning to Swim and Other Stories) and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize (1983), and with Last Orders the Booker Prize (1996). Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in over thirty languages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330535847 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330535846 |
| Title | Wish You Were Here |
| Author | Graham Swift |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2012-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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