Wish You Were Here

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 0330535846 / ISBN 13: 9780330535847

Published by Picador, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wish You Were Here
• Publisher: Picador
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330535846
• ISBN 13: 9780330535847
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 300 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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

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.