Wish You Were Here (Audiobook)

from teresa1953

A thoroughly good read this one! We step in to the life of Jack Luxton, a caravan park owner, living on the Isle of Wight with his wife Ellie. He has just received a letter from the Ministry of Defence, to inform him that his younger brother Tom has been killed whilst on active duty with the Army...

from Mouldywarp

The usual superb Swift!

from nocto

I loved this - very possibly the best book I've read this year. All the reviews I've seen seem to concentrate on it being a story based around the return home of the body of a soldier from Iraq. However I don't think that's really the centre of the story. It's certainly a story with a lot to do w...

from jphamilton

This was a fabulous read! It had so many of the topics that light me up, like death, pondering death and suicide, rural life and isolation, and some seriously troubled family dynamics. Plus with a Swift novel, you get great writing, emotion, and with this one, a style that shifted constantly in t...

from davidroche

I have just finished reading Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift (Scribner). One of our greatest writers at the peak of his powers, weaving the tension from a patchwork of relationships and recollections.