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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- An elegaic novel of love and its transformations, of life and its illusions, of magic and its reality. Shifting back and forth in time, from the music hall entertainments of Brighton in 1959 to a woman preparing for her day in contemporary London, the story captures a heyday that was rapidly fading even as it blossomed in its last great brilliance, and tells of a mysterious disappearance whose emptiness filled all the years between… Not a big novel, but not a slight one either! Beautifully rendered and the different timelines and characters are all handled very deftly - well worth spending time with. Lindy Jones
Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels, two collections of short stories, including the highly acclaimed England and Other Stories, and of Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. His most recent novel, Mothering Sunday, became an international bestseller and won The Hawthornden Prize for best work of imaginative literature. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels were made into films. His work has appeared in over thirty languages.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- An elegaic novel of love and its transformations, of life and its illusions, of magic and its reality. Shifting back and forth in time, from the music hall entertainments of Brighton in 1959 to a woman preparing for her day in contemporary London, the story captures a heyday that was rapidly fading even as it blossomed in its last great brilliance, and tells of a mysterious disappearance whose emptiness filled all the years between… Not a big novel, but not a slight one either! Beautifully rendered and the different timelines and characters are all handled very deftly - well worth spending time with. Lindy Jones
