b***LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE***/bbr From the Booker-winning author of iLast Orders/i and iWaterland/i comes a long-awaited new novel. 'iMothering Sunday /iis bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly... Swift's small fiction bfeels like a masterpiece' iThe /iiGuardian/i/bbr It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday.brbr How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold?brbr Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, iMothering Sunday/i has at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best.brbPraise for iMothering Sunday/i:/bbrbr 'iMothering Sunday /iis a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives - the parallel stories - we can never know ... It bmay just be Swift's best novel yet/b' ibThe Observer/b/ibrbr 'Dazzling . . . a vanished world is resurrected with superb immediacy . . . bwonderfully accomplished/b' ibSunday Times/b/ibrbr 'Stunning . . . It is about the most perfect novel you could wish to read' biThe Guardian/i/bbrbr 'From start to finish Swift's is a novel of bstylish brilliance/b and quiet narrative verve . . . Swift is a writer at the very top of his game' biEvening Standard/i/bbrbr 'bExquisite /b. . . iMothering Sunday/i shows love, lust and ordinary decency straining against the bars of an unjust English caste system' bKazuo Ishiguro/bbrbr 'bMastery and resonance/b . . . It's one of the novel's great strengths to be able to shift with such agility between focus scene and lifetime recollection . . . the languid, blissful minutes of March 30, 1924 seem to contain all the succeeding decades'bi Times Literary Supplement /i/bbrbr 'A bdazzling /bread: sexy, stylish, subversive' ibHerald Scotland/b/ibrbr 'A bjewel of a book/b, a subtle, erotically charged novella suspended between past and future' bHermione Lee/bbrbr 'A bwork of gold/b from the subtle pen of the great Graham Swift' biLe Monde/i/bbrbr 'With this novel bhe captures what it means to be alive/b' biDer Spiegel/i/bbrbr 'An bexquisite /bnovella of love and loss . . . a short yet powerful and intricately layered work . . . every sentence counting and bnot a word out of place/b' ibThe Australian/b/i