Wish You Were Here
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders an incredibly moving and accomplished novel.
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey--to receive his brother's remains, but also into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellie's past.
Wish You Were Here is both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a…
GRAHAM SWIFT was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels, two collections of short stories, and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry, and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won The Guardian Fiction Award, and with Last Orders, the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has appeared in more than thirty languages.
Twelve Post-War Tales
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Here We Are
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Mothering Sunday
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England and Other Stories
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Wish You Were Here
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Making an Elephant
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Tomorrow
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Last Orders
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The Light of Day
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Waterland
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Out Of This World
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