Wish You Were Here

About the Author

GRAHAM SWIFT lives in London and is the author of eight other novels: The Sweet-Shop Owner; Shuttlecock, which received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Waterland, which was a finalist for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Award, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour; Out of This World; Ever After, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; Last Orders, which was awarded the Booker Prize; The Light of Day; and Tomorrow. He is also the author of Learning to Swim, a collection of short stories, and Making an Elephant: Writing from Within. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.