Audio knyga: Mothering Sunday

Alive with sensuousness and sensualitywonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement * Sunday Times * From start to finish Swifts is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game * Evening Standard * Mothering Sunday is, like everything Swift writes, quite unlike anything Swift has written before, and subtly teasing * The Times * Swifts novella is a telling snapshot of a society struggling with the death toll of World War I, and cleverly pinpoints the fractures in the class system * Mail on Sunday * Mothering Sunday isa Conradian homage to a well-spring of inspirationyou can heard his masters voice echoing through the pages of this deceptively fine novel * Independent * With a clear focus on the possibilities of the short form, Graham Swift achieves a delicate harmony between the cool detachment of the narrative voice and the intensity of emotion conveyed on every page. This is a rare read indeed * Spectator * Love and death and much in between are expertly handled in this short but powerful novella * Daily Mail * Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives the parallel stories we can never know: All the scenes. All the scenes that never occur, but wait in the wings of possibility. It may just be Swifts best novel yet * Observer * Mothering Sunday is bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly Swifts small fiction feels like a masterpiece * Guardian * Swift has written a book that is not just his most moving and intricate but his most engrossing too * Financial Times Weekend *