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Mothering Sunday

by Graham Swift

Hardcover, 177 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $22.95 |

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Sharing what she believes will be a last tryst with a longtime secret lover on the eve of his marriage, a woman reflects on the years they have spent together and her journey of self-discovery against a backdrop of 20th-century history. By the award-winning author of Waterland.

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