Information about the author
Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels, two collections of short stories, including the highly acclaimed "England and Other Stories," and "Making an Elephant," a book of essays, portraits, poetry, and reflections on his life in writing. His most recent novel, "Mothering Sunday," became an international bestseller and won The Hawthornden Prize for best work of imaginative literature. With "Waterland," he won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and with "Last Orders," the Booker Prize. Both novels were made into films. His work has appeared in over thirty languages.

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It is March 30th, 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never-to-be-forgotten day, will her future unfold? Beginning with an intimate assignation.