The Sweet Shop Owner

Author: Swift, Graham

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 11 July 2019 by Simon & Schuster Ltd (Scribner UK) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 336 pages
130 x 196 x 25 | 308g

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, reissued for the first time in Scribner For forty years, Willy Chapman has struck a strange but steadfast bargain between the two poles of his life: his beautiful but emotionally damaged wife and the sweet shop he runs on a south London high street. Devoted to each, he has maintained a delicate, precarious balance. Now, on a hot summer’s day, he attempts to settle his final accounts and reach an understanding with a third, disruptive element in his reckoning: his angry, unforgiving daughter.

Spanning five decades and intricately exploring a doomed family triangle, Graham Swift’s first novel already shows the historical scope combined with intense intimacy that will characterise his work.

‘A marvellous first novel’ New Statesman‘Brilliantly chronicled’ The Spectator