The Sweet Shop Owner by Graham Swift
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For forty years, Willy Chapman has struck a strange but steadfast bargain between the two poles of his life: his beautiful but emotionally damaged wife and the sweet shop he runs on a south London high street. Devoted to each, he has maintained a delicate, precarious balance. Now, on a hot summer’s day, he attempts to settle his final accounts and reach an understanding with a third, disruptive element in his reckoning: his angry, unforgiving daughter.
Spanning five decades and intricately exploring a doomed family triangle, Graham Swift’s first novel already shows the historical scope combined with intense intimacy that will characterise his work.
REVIEWS
"A marvellous first novel." - New Statesman
"Brilliantly chronicled." - The Spectator
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Paperback
Publisher: Scribner UK
ISBN: 978-1471187353
Pages: 336
Spanning five decades and intricately exploring a doomed family triangle, Graham Swift’s first novel already shows the historical scope combined with intense intimacy that will characterise his work.
REVIEWS
"A marvellous first novel." - New Statesman
"Brilliantly chronicled." - The Spectator
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Scribner UK
ISBN: 978-1471187353
Pages: 336