Tomorrow - Softcover

Swift, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1471162028 ISBN 13: 9781471162022

Publisher: Scribner UK, 2018

Synopsis

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING MOTHERING SUNDAY AND LAST ORDERS, and reissued for the first time on the Scribner list, this is an intensely moving novel about a night that will change one family beyond recognition.

On a June night Paula, a successful art dealer, lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her. In nearby rooms their twin teenage children, Nick and Kate, sleep too. The next day, Paula knows, will define all their lives.
 
As dawn approaches, Paula recalls the years before and after her children were born. Her story is both a celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgement of the fear of loss, of the fragilities on which even our most inward sense of who we are can rest.
 
Graham Swift’s apparently most domestic book is that rare thing in fiction, a novel about happiness, though a happiness that is not all that it seems. An intimate and tender tale of a marriage, a family and a home, it begins to embrace big themes: nature and nurture, the illusory and the real.
 
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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Review

Praise for "The Light of Day":
"The story draws the reader on like the best whodunit-or, whydunnit. Yet it is also a profoundly artful, beautifully weighted, resonant and humane literary novel."
--"Telegraph" (UK)
"Leave it to one of the great modern storytellers to pen a mystery where the crime is the least important element . . . Swift fashions the detective archetype into a workshop for a discussion of human identity."
--"Winnipeg Free Press"
"[Swift] is a wonderfully original writer and his new work lives up to his reputation as one of England's finest living novelists . . . an intriguing, even mystifying story of the power of passion, murder and redemption."
--"Toronto Sun"
Praise for "Last Orders":
"Graham Swift is a purely wonderful writer, and Last Orders, full of gravity and affection and stylistic brilliance, proves it precisely."
--Richard Ford
"Book for book, Swift is surely one of England's finest living novelists."
--"New York Review of Books"

"From the Hardcover edition."

"A writer of great range, vigor and acuity. . . . Evokes perfectly the circularities of a sleepless night."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"An honest, sometimes funny, sometimes snort-aloud-true, tale of a woman's love for her family."
--"The Hartford Courant "
"The circular way Paula unwinds her story-less chronologically than thematically-told with the warmth of a woman talking to her adored children, is captivating."
--"Portland Oregonian"
"Swift's]talent shines through in his smooth prose and keen eye for detail.... "Tomorrow "provides a revealing look at one family's secrets and how they impact many lives, despite one's best efforts to manipulate the outcome."
--"Rocky Mountain News"

Book Description

Booker Prize-winner Graham Swift offers a masterful and compassionate novel about the mystery of happiness.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner UK
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1471162028
• ISBN 13: 9781471162022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320