Life begins at 80! 8/10 #GrahamSwift #LastOrders

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…there were lots of quite young men then who seemed to topple readily into being old men. They lingered on the edge of it, as if it were a tempting choice. #twelvepostwarstories #grahamswift
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We are all fuel. We are born, and we burn, some of us more quickly than others. There are different kinds of combustion. But not to burn, never to catch fire at all, that would be the sad life, wouldn’t it?

- Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday
born on this day, 1949

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🎭 The past will not be silenced.

𝗠𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 released on this day, March 25, 2022. 🤫

𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 Odessa Young, Josh O' Connor, and Colin Firth.

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“How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.”

✒️ #GrahamSwift, English novelist and short story writer, is 77 today. #Literature

Just finished "Waterland" by Graham Swift: www.goodreads.com/review/show/…#goodreadsd#bookstodono#fedibooksk#GrahamSwiftft #bookreview

Coming up to 30 years since publication: As the main characters in #LastOrders will tell you - time flies 7.5/10 #GrahamSwift

“How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.”

✒️ #GrahamSwift, English novelist and short story writer, is 76 today. #Literature

On this day in 1949 Graham Swift was born.

He is a successful author and many of his books have been adapted into film.

He was the joint winner of the 1996 Booker Prize with 'Last Orders', but was accused of copying another writer!

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Twelve Post-War Tales by #GrahamSwift #Book #Review – haunting visions from a Booker winner

The author’s conceptual agility is on display in these short stories surveying the trauma of conflict and the challenges of survival

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Graham Swift – Mothering Sunday (2016). In 1924, a young maid, Jane Fairchild, meets her well-to-do lover, Paul Sheringham, who is about to marry someone of his own class. But events don’t go to plan. A compassionate and beautifully written novel. Up there with Swift’s best work. #GrahamSwift

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Gorgeous, illuminating

You can't get more literary talent than that. What great linguistic power, subtle interpretation and intellectual breadth. Magnificent.
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My current read - brilliantly captures the geography and strangeness of the Fens and intertwines it all with themes of the circular nature of history (& that we never learn from it - how apt!) and story-telling and unreliable narratives.

#grahamswift #waterland #thefens #eels