A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers’
assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a
remarkable life.
Twenty-two-year-old Jane
Fairchild has worked as a maid at an English country house since she was
sixteen. For almost all of those years she has been the clandestine
lover to Paul Sheringham, young heir of a neighboring house. The two now
meet on an unseasonably warm March day—Mothering Sunday—a day that will
change Jane’s life forever.
As the narrative moves
back and forth from 1924 to the end of the century, what we know and
understand about Jane—about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees,
remembers—expands with every vividly captured moment. Her story is one
of profound self-discovery, and through her, Graham Swift has created an
emotionally soaring, deeply affecting work of fiction...
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