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Mothering Sunday: A Romance
Reader Score
78%
78% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Great
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"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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Jan 10th, 2017
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.10in - 0.60in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9781101971727
- Categories: • Literary• Historical - General• Romance - Historical - 20th Century
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"British authors specialise in novels in which hot, languid people spend hot, languid days in charming country piles: think of them as National Trust novels…This wonderful novella is a superb addition to the genre."
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Our last meeting of the year for book club. We read Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift which the group liked. We disagreed about the ambiguity of Paul’s accident - was it suicide? Also discussed the walking around the house naked. #DiaryOfaLibrarian
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Nice to meet you, Jane 💋 Josh O’connor, Olivia Coleman, Colin Firth, and Odessa Young star in the @sonyclassics, MOTHERING SUNDAY, based on the book of the same name by Graham Swift. This grand romantic drama hit theaters in NY & LA today. Nationwide this spring. https://t.co/bCzbw4iVzH
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"Exquisite. . . Mothering Sunday shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system." --Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian
"A book you'll want to read more than once--and then urge on your friends." --NPR
"An exquisite, emotionally resonant romance." --Entertainment Weekly
"A fairy tale of sexual and intellectual awakening." --The New Yorker
What people are saying
"British authors specialise in novels in which hot, languid people spend hot, languid days in charming country piles: think of them as National Trust novels…This wonderful novella is a superb addition to the genre."
Community Librarian, Joint Public & School Library: books&reading, information, education, opinions 🌈 pictures of Poppy
Our last meeting of the year for book club. We read Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift which the group liked. We disagreed about the ambiguity of Paul’s accident - was it suicide? Also discussed the walking around the house naked. #DiaryOfaLibrarian