Mothering Sunday: A Romance

By Noel Streatfeild and Graham Swift

Book Overview

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life. Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild has worked as a maid at an English country house since she was sixteen. For almost all of those years she has been the clandestine lover to Paul Sheringham, young heir of a neighboring house. The two now meet on an unseasonably warm March day--Mothering Sunday--a day that will change Jane's life forever. As the narrative moves back and forth from 1924 to the end of the century, what we know and understand about Jane--about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, remembers--expands with every vividly captured moment. Her story is one of profound self-discovery, and through her, Graham Swift has created an emotionally soaring, deeply affecting work of fiction.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101947527
• ISBN13: 9781101947524
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.8" x 4.7"