Wish You Were Here (Graham Swift novel)

Wish You Were Here
Author Graham Swift
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher Picador
Publication date
 2011
Media type Print
Pages 352
ISBN 978-0330-53583-0
Preceded by Making an Elephant: Writing from Within
Followed by England and Other Stories

Wish You Were Here is a novel by English writer Graham Swift, first published in 2011.[1]

Synopsis

This is a novel about the changing face of rural England. It is narrated by the last of a long line of West Country farmers who now runs a caravan park on the Isle of Wight with his childhood sweetheart, the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.[2] As Jack Luxton travels to collect the body of his brother, repatriated from the war in Iraq, and take it to the family burial plot in North Devon, he relates the history of the Luxton family and their traditional professions of farming and military service.[3] Alongside this he tells the story of the near demise of dairy farming in England, through the twin catastrophes of BSE and foot and mouth disease. Added to this is the increasingly common and equally disastrous disease of wealthy city dwellers buying second homes in rural areas, thus disrupting traditional village life and making it too expensive for locals to stay in their natural communities.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "THE BRITISH LIBRARY". bl.uk. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Benjamin Markovits. "Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift – review". the Guardian. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Wish You Were Here, By Graham Swift". The Independent. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  4. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/books/review/wish-you-were-here-by-graham-swift.html
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