About the Author

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels; two collections of short stories; and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won The Guardian Fiction Award, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has appeared in more than thirty
languages.

Reviews

"Haunting." -The New York Times

"Exquisite. . . Mothering Sunday shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system." -Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian

"A book you'll want to read more than once-and then urge on your friends." -NPR

"An exquisite, emotionally resonant romance." -Entertainment Weekly

"A fairy tale of sexual and intellectual awakening." -The New Yorker