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Publisher's Summary
Award-winning writer Graham Swift returns with his profoundly moving new novel, Mothering Sunday.
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold?
Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothering Sunday has at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best.
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- susan
- 11-11-2016
amazing Story well told.
This book took awhile for me to get into but I now have read it twice and became enthralled by her insights about writing, finding a language and what grabs you in a book. Mothering Sunday grabbed me
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- W Perry Hall
- 19-04-2016
The Indelibles
After a lusty, au naturel launch, this welterweight novel is a poignant portrayal of the spirit of a woman who soared. Centered on the meditations of a March 1924 day of a 22-year-old maid (raised an orphan after being left on doorsteps in a basket), the tale transports the reader with her ponderings, perched upon the vivid images and emotions of the day's indelible moments.
This compact, soul-kindling book studies how a life in the day, the convergence of remembered people, places and things, can impact a young lady's humanity and altogether alter the course of her life, traveling through the light of literature.
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- D
- 12-06-2016
Exceptional - sensitive and seductive.
Completely compelling from the beginning. A stunning listen which is both sensitively written and utterly transportative!
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- peter mcgarry
- 19-12-2019
Perfection - Haunting - Beautiful
I have read this book on the day of its publication. Now here is the audio version and it is totally breath taking.
A perfect portrayal of a bubble in time, one day, Mothering Sunday.
Britain between the wars will always be a source of fascination for me and this book encapsulates so much of this time.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-08-2018
beautifully written
A strange narrative, captures a dying era, but so drawn out. Glad it wasn't too long - enjoyed it though
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- Jonathan
- 15-09-2017
Thoroughly enjoyed it
Any additional comments?
I loved the audiobook - it's short but beautifully formed. It strikes me as a difficult book to narrate, but I thought that Eve Webster did a great job.
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- Suswati
- 03-07-2017
Fluffy period melodrama, not my cup of tea
Graham Swift is an eloquent writer as his descriptions are vivid however the story itself is rather flakey. It's pretty much about an old woman looking back at her life to a particular point where she had an affair with her master while she was a maid. There are far too many descriptions about bodily fluids which only a man would deem to care about. While the sentiment is there, there wasn't enough substance or point to the novel.
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- Lynne Adams
- 24-06-2017
Perfect Craft
A long short story which poses as many questions as it answers and perfectly illustrates the great craft of story or tale telling. A beautiful reading enhances the spell.
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- o. Hodgkinson
- 10-05-2017
descriptive, historical snapshot
Where does Mothering Sunday rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
low on the list mainly due to the infuriating and repetitive voice of the narrator
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
most interesting: Getting a glimpse of life post the first world warleast: I found the detail too much sometimes, situations being repeated several times.
What didn’t you like about Eve Webster’s performance?
Her voice was so annoying it actually made me feel cross! It went up after every 4 or 5 words and this pattern was the same for the entire book, regardless of whether the sentence was happy, sad, thoughtful etc. Very hard to follow the plot with this disjointed style of reading.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Possibly, if it had a better narrator. the plot would stand it.
Any additional comments?
Beautiful descriptions but possibly too much. The story is minimal but interesting.
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- Nike
- 14-03-2017
Very good
Well written and amusing and subtle account which could be biographical of a number of modern authors.
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- james davis
- 11-01-2019
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Bloody awful and long way off from the start but not too until after that was not the only t hing
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- Bridget Campbell
- 24-07-2017
Did not like it
What disappointed you about Mothering Sunday?
It was all about a sexual affair on Mothering Sunday.
What could Graham Swift have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Not connect sexual affairs with Mothering Sunday. You are not supposed to imagine your parents doing this sort of thing on Mothering Sunday.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Anger
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