{"product_id":"9781471161988-wish-you-were-here","title":"Wish You Were Here","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn intensely moving and beautifully written novel from the Booker-prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eLast Orders\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMothering Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eLAST ORDERS \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eMOTHERING SUNDAY\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003eand reissued for the first time in Scribner, comes a novel called ‘Profound and powerful . an unputdownable read’ by \u003ci\u003eScotland on Sunday.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, \u003cb\u003eJack Luxton\u003c\/b\u003e – former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park – receives the news that his brother \u003cb\u003eTom\u003c\/b\u003e, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For Jack and his wife \u003cb\u003eEllie\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Mothering Sunday:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly… Swift’s small fiction feels like a masterpiece’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ‘Alive with sensuousness and sensuality … wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘From start to finish Swift’s is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003ci\u003eMothering Sunday \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives – the parallel stories – we can never know … It may just be Swift’s best novel yet’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57535876890998,"sku":"9781471161988","price":7.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31786940.jpg?v=1774283404","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781471161988-wish-you-were-here","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}