Wish You Were Here Lib/E (Compact Disc)

Wish You Were Here Lib/E By Graham Swift, John Lee (Read by) Cover Image

Wish You Were Here Lib/E (Compact Disc)

By Graham Swift, John Lee (Read by)

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On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.

For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey--to receive his brother's remains, but it is also a journey into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellie's past.

Wish You Were Here is both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with Graham Swift's love of the local and full of humor and tenderness in the face of tragedy, it is also, inescapably, about a wider, afflicted world. Moving toward an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines--the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war--as heart-wrenching personal truth.


Product Details ISBN: 9781455110902
ISBN-10: 1455110906
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date: April 17th, 2012
Language: English