Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift
A former dairy farmer turned seaside caravan park owner receives news that his soldier brother has been killed in Iraq, prompting a long night of reckoning in which he confronts the collapse of his family farm during the foot-and-mouth crisis, the death of his father, his strained marriage to his childhood sweetheart, and the tug of duty and guilt as he prepares to accompany the body home, illuminating the fractures of rural England and the corrosive weight of grief and memory.
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- Published
- 2011
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 352-368
- Original Language
- English
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