Wish You Were Here

 
23 March 2012

Wish You Were Here
by Graham Swift
(Picador, £7.99)

A married man, Jack, might and might not do something absolutely appalling. It’s something that people would talk about for years afterwards. They’d say they never saw it coming —he was such a quiet man. Jack runs a caravan site. He is married to Ellie. A letter arrives at their house in the Isle of Wight. Jack’s brother, a sniper in Iraq, has been killed. Along with Jack, we are sucked into the past. Jack’s past is defined by guns. The day someone shot a dog. The day someone else shot himself. Blood and viscera. Tough men. Buried emotions. Dark and exciting.

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