Wish You Were Here A hauntingly intimate deeply compassionate story about things that touch and test our human core Wish You Were Here also looks inevitably to a wider afflicted world Moving toward a fiercely suspe

A hauntingly intimate, deeply compassionate story about things that touch and test our human core, Wish You Were Here also looks, inevitably, to a wider, afflicted world Moving toward a fiercely suspenseful climax, it brilliantly transforms the stuff of headlines into heart wrenching personal truth.From the prizewinning author of the acclaimed Last Orders, The Light of DaA hauntingly intimate, deeply compassionate story about things that touch and test our human core, Wish You Were Here also looks, inevitably, to a wider, afflicted world Moving toward a fiercely suspenseful climax, it brilliantly transforms the stuff of headlines into heart wrenching personal truth.From the prizewinning author of the acclaimed Last Orders, The Light of Day, and Waterland, a powerfully moving new novel set in present day England, but against the background of a global war on terror and about things that touch our human core.On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton once a farmer, now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park receives the news that his brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq The news will have its far reaching effects for Jack and his wife, Ellie, and compel Jack to make a crucial journey to receive his brother s remains, but also to return to the land of his past and of his most secret, troubling memories A gripping, hauntingly intimate, and compassionate story that moves toward a fiercely suspenseful climax, Wish You Were Here translates the stuff of headlines into heartwrenching personal truth.
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Graham Colin Swift FRSL born May 4, 1949 is a British author He was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens College, Cambridge, and later the University of York He was a friend of Ted Hughes.Some of his works have been made into films, including Last Orders, which starred Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins and Waterland which starred Jeremy Irons Last Orders was a joint winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the Booker Prize in 1996, owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner s As I Lay Dying Waterland was set in The Fens it is a novel of landscape, history and family, and is often cited as one of the outstanding post war British novels and has been a set text on the English Literature syllabus in British schools.