Mothering Sunday: A Romance

From the Booker Prize-winning author, an intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers’ assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life. * Don’t miss the major motion picture starring Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Sope Dirisu, Colin Firth, and more

Exquisite … shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system. -Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian

On an unseasonably warm spring day in the 1920s, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair-but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted.

As the narrative moves back and forth across the twentieth century, what we know and understand about Jane-about the way she loves, thinks, feels, sees, and remembers-expands with every page. In Mothering Sunday, Swift has crafted an emotionally soaring and profoundly moving work of fiction.