Tomorrow

Graham Swift

ISBN 10: 0330450263 / ISBN 13: 9780330450263

Published by Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London, 2008

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On a midsummers night, Paula lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her, her two teenage children, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will define all their lives. As morning 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, the fragilities, illusions and secrets on which even our most intimate sense of who we are can rest. `A triumph . . . This is Graham Swift at his impressive best Times Literary Supplement `Paula talks the way that people actually talk . . . this is part of Swifts overwhelming honesty as a writer: he writes the way that life goes Anne Enright, Guardian `The rhythms of long-term partnership become the rhymes of the narrative itself . . . a subtle picture emerges of how coupledom is deepened by parenthood Robert MacFarlane, Sunday Times `As assured and subtle as ever . . . Swift artfully reminds us that no set of relationships is ever free from complication and concealment Spectator `Paulas anguish is beautifully captured, as is her tenderness towards her loved ones Mail on Sunday. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR000451107

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tomorrow

Publisher: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom, London

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis:

On a midsummer’s night, Paula lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her, her two teenage children, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will define all their lives.

As morning 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, the fragilities, illusions and secrets on which even our most intimate sense of who we are can rest.

`A triumph . . . This is Graham Swift at his impressive best’ Times Literary Supplement

`Paula talks the way that people actually talk . . . this is part of Swift’s overwhelming honesty as a writer: he writes the way that life goes’ Anne Enright, Guardian

`The rhythms of long-term partnership become the rhymes of the narrative itself . . . a subtle picture emerges of how coupledom is deepened by parenthood’ Robert MacFarlane, Sunday Times

`As assured and subtle as ever . . . Swift artfully reminds us that no set of relationships is ever free from complication and concealment’ Spectator

`Paula’s anguish is beautifully captured, as is her tenderness towards her loved ones’ Mail on Sunday

About the Author:

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.