Clasici contemporani De ziua mamei

Jane Fairchild spends Mother’s Day with her secret lover. It is Sunday, 30 March 1924, in England. Jane is 22, an orphan who works in a country house. With no mother to visit, she meets a nearby estate’s young heir. He plans to wed a woman of his own social class. Their affair must end, but an unexpected turn shapes Jane’s future.

Graham Swift’s novel explores love, class and the paths a life might take. It moves between Jane’s past and future. The stories she reads, then tells herself, reveal her inner life. Swift, a Booker Prize winner, links her private world to the lasting effects of one day. This edition belongs to the Clasici contemporani series.