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A triumphant return to form from the Booker Prize-winner. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey-to receive his brother's remains, but also into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellie's past. Wish You Were Here is both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with a sense of the intimate and the local, it is also, inescapably, about a wider, afflicted world. Moving towards an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines - the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war - as heart-wrenching personal truth.Product Identifiers
PublisherPan Macmillan
ISBN-139780330535847
eBay Product ID (ePID)111989678
Product Key Features
Book TitleWish You Were Here
AuthorGraham Swift
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2012
Dimensions
Item Height197mm
Item Width130mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorGraham Swift
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom