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| Author | Graham Swift |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Amedeo Modigliani Nu couché (1917) |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
Publication date | 2016 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 132 |
| ISBN | 1-4711-55234 |
Mothering Sunday was published in 2016 by English author Graham Swift, and won the Hawthornden Prize the following year. In 2021 it was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Eva Husson and starring Odessa Young, Glenda Jackson, Olivia Colman and Colin Firth.
The entire novel is set on March 30, 1924—which is when Mothering Sunday occurred that year—when a young maid, Jane Fairchild, goes to meet her lover, Paul Sheringham, who she has been having an illicit affair with for seven years and who is about to be married in a few weeks to a rich young woman in his social circle, Emma Hobday.