Monday 21 February 2011

Tomorrow - Graham Swift

I loved reading this. Like others of his that I've read, the narrative messes with time, in this case focusing all our attention on the 'tomorrow' that we never quite reach, leaving the reader wondering how the big revelatory conversation actually goes... In the meantime, the sleepless mother tells the story of how the secret came about, which turns out to be the story of a marriage, in an unexpurgated version that includes some information that won't be revealed even in the honesty of 'tomorrow'. Some of the cheap shots in this spoof version do hit home though...

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