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Wish You Were Here

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Wish You Were Here

By: Graham Swift
Narrated by: Alex Jennings
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, and reissued for the first time in Scribner, comes a novel called ‘Profound and powerful . . . an unputdownable read’ by Scotland on Sunday.

On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton – former Devon farmer, now proprietor of a seaside caravan park – receives the news that his brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.

For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brother’s remains, but also to return to the land of his past and confront his most secret,

©2011 Graham Swift (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, UK
Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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"Profound and powerful...an unputdownable read." (Scotland on Sunday)

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