The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally resonant. As he tends to his customers, Willy Chapman, the sweet-shop owner, confronts the spectre's of his beautiful and distant wife and his clever, angry daughter; the history through which he has passed; and the great, unrequited passion that has tormented him for 40 years.
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"I loved this book when I read it. When you've finished this book go back and read the first page again.. "
" Although this is an amazing first novel, I did not care for it as much as I do Swift's other novels. "
" I preferred this to 'Waterland', not a bad little novel. "
" very sad, melancholy book. i like this writer, will definitely read more of him. "
Graham Swift is the author of eight novels, including the Booker Prize–winning Last Orders and Waterland, which won the Guardian Fiction Award. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in London.
James Wilby starred as Senator James Dorr in the Masterpiece Theatre production of Island at War. In film, he can be seen in Gosford Park, Howards End, and De-Lovely.
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