Wish You Were Here
by:
Graham Swift (author)
ISBN:
9781445859408 (1445859408)
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: Windsor
Pages no: 345
Edition language: English
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton—once a Devon farmer, now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park—receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq. For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have unexpected, far-reaching effects....
Feels like a return to Waterland. Dense. Poetic. Classy.
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