Mothering Sunday

Swift, Graham

ISBN 10: 1101947527 / ISBN 13: 9781101947524

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2016

About this Item

SIGNED - Duodecimo. Dark brown boards quarterbound in a black backstrip with shiny gilt lettering. White endpapers. Signed by the author in black pen on a special tip-in page bound into the front of the book by the publisher. 177 pages. Neither this book nor its dust jacket have any discernable flaws. A beautiful copy, uncommon with the author's signature.

Seller Inventory # 000551

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mothering Sunday
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1101947527
• ISBN 13: 9781101947524
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by the Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature & Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A luminous, 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.
           
Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild has worked as a maid at an English country house since she was sixteen. For almost all of those years she has been the clandestine lover to Paul Sheringham, young heir of a neighboring house. The two now meet on an unseasonably warm March day—Mothering Sunday—a day that will change 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—expands with every vividly captured moment. Her story is one of profound self-discovery, and through her, Graham Swift has created an emotionally soaring, deeply affecting work of fiction.

About the Author

GRAHAM SWIFT was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels; two collections of short 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 Award, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has appeared in more than thirty languages.