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Alive with sensuousness and sensuality…wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement’
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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’
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Mothering Sunday is, like everything Swift writes, quite unlike anything Swift has written before, and subtly teasing’
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Swift’s novella is a telling snapshot of a society struggling with the death toll of World War I, and cleverly pinpoints the fractures in the class system’
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Mothering Sunday is…a Conradian homage to a well-spring of inspiration…you can heard his master’s voice echoing through the pages of this deceptively fine novel’
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With a clear focus on the possibilities of the short form, Graham Swift achieves a delicate harmony between the cool detachment of the narrative voice and the intensity of emotion conveyed on every page. This is a rare read indeed’
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Love and death and much in between are expertly handled in this short but powerful novella’
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Mothering Sunday is bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly… Swift’s small fiction feels like a masterpiece’
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Swift has written a book that is not just his most moving and intricate but his most engrossing too’
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