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Mothering Sunday: A Romance
Contributor(s): Swift, Graham (Author)
ISBN: 110197172X     ISBN-13: 9781101971727
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE:   $13.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2017
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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
 
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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.