Wish You Were Here

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2011 by Graham Swift

Al rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf,

a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

www.aaknopf.com

Original y published in Great Britain by Picador, an imprint of

Pan Macmil an Ltd., London, in 2011.

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of

Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Swift, Graham, [date]

Wish you were here / by Graham Swift.—1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-95766-5

1. Brothers—Fiction. 2. Soldiers—Death—Fiction. 3.

1. Brothers—Fiction. 2. Soldiers—Death—Fiction. 3.

Devon (England)—Fiction. 4. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PR6069.W47W57 2012

823’.914—dc23 2011050296

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Jacket design by Jason Booher

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For Candice

Are these things done on

Albion’s shore?

—Wil iam Blake, “A Little Boy

Lost”

Contents

Cover

Title Page

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