Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift

From the Booker Prize-winning author, an intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life. • Don't miss the major motion picture starring Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Colin Firth, and more

"Exquisite ... shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system." —Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian

On an unseasonably warm spring day in the 1920s, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair—but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted.

As the narrative moves back and forth across the twentieth century, what we know and understand about Jane—about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, and remembers—expands with every page. In Mothering Sunday , Swift has crafted an emotionally soaring and profoundly moving work of fiction.