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In 1924, Jane Fairchild is an orphan and maidservant who works for the wealthy Niven family. On Mothering Sunday, Jane is given the day off to spend as she likes.To her surprise, Paul Sheringham, the son of wealthy neighbours, invites her to spend the day with him at his family's house while his parents are out having lunch with the Nivens and the Hobday family.
Hannah Beckerman, writing in The Guardian, regards the novel as perhaps being Swift's best novel yet. "Stylistically, Mothering Sunday features the restrained and yet emotive prose for which Swift is renowned...And when the story’s shocking revelation is delivered – two-thirds of the way through the novel – it is described by Swift so sparsely, so economically, that the impact is both ...
Blue Plaque for Constance Penswick Smith. Located on Church Walk, Newark on Trent, England. Constance Adelaide Smith (28 April 1878 – 10 June 1938, published under the pseudonym C. Penswick Smith) was an Englishwoman responsible for the reinvigoration of Mothering Sunday in the British Isles in the 1910s and 1920s.
It’s a curious quirk of the British calendar that Mother’s Day — or Mothering Sunday, if you want to be formal about it — falls not in May, with all that month’s springy symbolism of new ...
“Mothering Sunday,” a steamy British drama starring Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor and Olivia Colman, will have its U.S. premiere as the centerpiece film at the Hamptons International Film ...
“Mothering Sunday’s” Odessa Young has been tapped for award-winning director Thordur Palsson’s upcoming psychological horror “The Damned.” The film will see Young star as Eva, a 19th ...
Mothering Sunday is a day honouring mother churches, [1] the church where one is baptised and becomes "a child of the church", celebrated since the Middle Ages [2] in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries on the fourth Sunday in Lent.
Some of Swift's books have been filmed, including Waterland (1992), Shuttlecock (1993), Last Orders (1996) and Mothering Sunday (2021). His novel Last Orders was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a controversial winner of the 1996 Booker Prize, owing to the many similarities in plot and structure to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.