Wish You Were Here
Graham Swift
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.
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`This is a profound and powerful portrait of a nation and a man in crisis, that for all its gentle intensity also manages to be an unputdownable read.’ Scotland on Sunday
`The novel expertly explores the poignant contrast between irrepressible human hope and the constraints within which we live our finite lives.’ The Times
`Affecting, powerfully sober prose . . . Wish You Were Here is a work of wide, ambitious span’ Sunday Times
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