Mothering Sunday: A Romance Contributor(s): Swift, Graham (Author) |
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ISBN: 110197172X ISBN-13: 9781101971727 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Romance - Historical - 20th Century |
Dewey: 823.914 |
LCCN: 2015033402 |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From the Booker Prize-winning author, an 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. "Exquisite ... shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system." --Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian On an unseasonably warm spring day in the 1920s, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair--but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted. As the narrative moves back and forth across the twentieth century, what we know and understand about Jane--about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, and remembers--expands with every page. In Mothering Sunday, Swift has crafted an emotionally soaring and profoundly moving work of fiction. |