Published in February 2016,
Mothering Sunday: A Romance,
Graham Swift’s tenth novel, is a self-conscious celebration of the transformative power of storytelling, a prominent thematic focus in this leading contemporary novelist’s work. Swift’s second novel with a female central character (following 2007’s
Tomorrow, the least well-received work in Swift’s fiction), it constitutes in its choice of protagonist a departure from tormented male characters, such as Tom Crick in
Waterland(1983), who are confessing past traumas, such as Ray in
Last Orders(1996). The only one of his works which focuses on the development of an author, it allows Swift brief but significant moments of reflexivity, as his alter ego in the novel celebrates the craft of authorship, the process of finding a…
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Citation: Logotheti, Anastasia. "Mothering Sunday". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 September 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35733, accessed 11 May 2024.]
