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Tomorrow

By Graham Swift
Tomorrow In his first novel since The Light of Day the Booker Prize winning author pens a luminous tale about the closest of human bonds Brilliantly distilling years into one suspenseful night this novel

  • Title: Tomorrow
  • Author: Graham Swift
  • ISBN: 9780307266903
  • Page: 283
  • Format: Hardcover

    • In his first novel since The Light of Day, the Booker Prize winning author pens a luminous tale about the closest of human bonds Brilliantly distilling 50 years into one suspenseful night, this novel is an exploration of couples, parenthood, and a unique meditation on the mystery of happiness.

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    About Author

    1. Graham Swift says:
      Graham Colin Swift FRSL born May 4, 1949 is a British author He was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens College, Cambridge, and later the University of York He was a friend of Ted Hughes.Some of his works have been made into films, including Last Orders, which starred Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins and Waterland which starred Jeremy Irons Last Orders was a joint winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the Booker Prize in 1996, owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner s As I Lay Dying Waterland was set in The Fens it is a novel of landscape, history and family, and is often cited as one of the outstanding post war British novels and has been a set text on the English Literature syllabus in British schools.

    Comment 498 on “Tomorrow”

    1. Pooja says:
      Tomorrow is a story about the collection of letter a mother writes to her two children, before the night of the day theri parents are going to be separated And that the next day, that is, tomorrow, the children have to choose their path and that their decision matters and will affect to the whole family and relatives.The theme is really great but the narration seemed sometimes out of the blue and I couldn t connect much to Paula.Her voice was really the way normal people speak and felt correct.E [...]
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    2. Danielle says:
      Ugh Let me just count the ways that I loathed this book 1 The stupid author baited me, and then grossly disappointed Its one thing to build up the reader s anticipation when there is a legitimate payoff, but to keep reminding us There s something big coming Something earth shattering is going to be revealed any time now and keep on like that for three quarters of the book, it darn well better be earth shattering, or I m going to be ticked I was ticked.2 I couldn t believe the author was really a [...]
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    3. Sarah says:
      I actually had to create the bookshelf quit for this book, because I very rarely legitimately quit reading a book once begun But I did, and I can t front like I really did turn all those endless pages Also, having read it would say something about me that I don t want said, because and here it comes the whole crappy thing is blahbittyblah filler leading up to a big secret that will be revealed when WHEN When I looked at the page number for the 40th time on page 54 and decided that I couldn t pos [...]
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    4. anna says:
      Expands upon the idea of what when to tell kids that they are from invitro fertilization AND artificial insemination.Problem is, i just kept wondering through most of the book, WHEN is this narrator going to get around to it i just kept thinking GET AROUND TO IT ALREADY most of the book she just alludes to the fact hey ahve somthing big to tell the kids tomorrow maybe i just have no patience right about now, but even though it was an interesting idea, this book kindof dragged for me At one point [...]
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    5. Beth says:
      The title of this book is one word beginning with T Tomorrow I can think of another T word that would have been a appropriate title Tedious The story is of a mother of 16 year old twins laying awake in bed thinking about the conversation that she and her husband will be having with their children tomorrow hence the title to tell them about a long held secret The entire book takes place during the night We never actually see the narrator and her husband have the conversation Instead we follow th [...]
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    6. Sun says:
      Paula, the mother of twins Nick and Kate, and wife of Mike, agonizes during the night and into the morning of the day after the twins 16th birthday She s worrying over the impact of a big announcement on the twins and on their family It s fairly obvious from the first chapter what the momentous revelation is, and in 2010, it hardly comes as a surprise, and I can t imagine the personal and ethical dilemmas were any novel when the book was published in 2007 Maybe I responded the way teenagers do [...]
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    7. Veronica says:
      This was a huge disappointment It takes the form of the interior monologue of Paula Hook, lying awake brooding over what her husband is going to tell their two children the following day She makes it sound like the end of the world, but frankly it isn t I wouldn t say she s making a mountain out of a molehill, but she is certainly exaggerating the possible effects The writing is leaden, and because we never actually meet the other characters, they don t come alive I was completely underwhelmed A [...]
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    8. Luc says:
      Paula lies awake besides her husband in the night before the 16th birthday of their twins, a boy and a girl The next day the couple is going to make an announcement to their children It takes some time before Graham Swift allows Paula s thoughts to reveal to the reader the content of this message to their children Curiosity keeps you going as Paula s thoughts unfold this small happy family s background and history we get to know her and her husband s own family with the respective grandfathers a [...]
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    9. Lisa says:
      pout I m not having much luck with my fiction reading at the moment.I am spoiled for choice with non fiction I have started Rebe Taylor s Into the Heart of Tasmania A Search for Human Antiquity but then Tony Kevin s new book Return to Moscow came into the library and I just took a little peek at it when the traffic lights were red and kept going when I got home I ve got an intriguing new bio called Lenin the Dictator An Intimate Portrait and a beautiful National Library of Australia bio called L [...]
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    10. Chaitra says:
      Yuck Yuck Such a disgusting book with a truly awful woman at its center She didn t have any redeeming qualities at all I held on till the very end hoping she d realize what a disgusting person she was and she would please go kill herself but no She doesn t Yuck Within the first twenty pages I was already feeling a relief on behalf of the kids that she wasn t the one telling them the awful secret The archness of her manner of speaking thinking was overbearing You know, that secret, the one you ll [...]
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    11. James Murphy says:
      I didn t care for Tomorrow I didn t dislike it because the entire novel is an interior monologue by a woman lying in bed I wasn t put off by the premise of her interior address to her children, the twins Kate and Nick, who re to be told something tomorrow that ll change forever the way they look at themselves and their parents The most serious shortcoming in the novel is the voice of Paula Hook, the mother It s too self conscious, too aware it s speaking a narration in someone s head Her voice a [...]
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    12. Oona says:
      This was my introduction to this author, possibly through a book review clipped and thrown in a bedside table drawer I found it to be lyrical and wise We all have than one creature inside of us perhaps And there are some moments in our lives that make us ripe for metamorphosis.The book is narrated by the thoughts of a woman wife mother who is lying in bed thinking about a conversation that will happen in their family the next morning The children are twins and the parents feel that they are old [...]
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    13. Tony says:
      I didn t like the narrator of Tomorrow, a mother musing at three a.m about her family on the eve of the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT to her sixteen year old twins SPOILER ALERT that they were products of gasp artificial insemination She s not evil And I spent quite some time trying to put my finger on what I didn t like about her I think it s that she seems to be viewing her family, indeed her life, as figures in a dollhouse I am the mommy I work for an art firm Here is the daddy He used to study snails now [...]
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    14. Kelly says:
      Eee gads I can t believe after starting this book and stopping I forced myself to read the entire thing Basically this book could have been a short story It just went on and on You wait nearly the entire book to find out the big secret, which isn t really that big of a deal, and the entire time read repeatedly the same exact thoughts from the mother page after page The only satisfaction I have gotten from this book is that I finished it.
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    15. Chris Waterford says:
      This book started so well An interesting premise a secret to be revealed to their 16 year old twins tomorrow that would shake their lives to their foundations The book is about the Mother ruminating over the family history during a long night, prior to the big secret being revealed I kept wondering what it had to do with the secret I started to skim over the boring part but there was no end to it Disappointing.
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    16. Rosie says:
      I adore Graham Swift s style of writing I can honestly say I think I would read through the whole phonebook if it was written in his reminiscing, romantic, monologuing way Tomorrow was just the same a delightfully nostalgic tale.However, to be honest, I very much feel like this novel may aswell have been the phonebook The subject matter was bizarre and seems to me to have been dealt with in an incredibly over dramatic fashion, which is why I haven t given this book 5 stars Spoiler alert Tomorrow [...]
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    17. Kim says:
      I started this book with much excitement Swift is a Booker prize winner and this book is described as The work of a master craftsman , Gripping , and A tour de force An ingenuous piece of fiction Well i say pfffffft to all that I was so bored for so long that i finally gave up The story takes place in one evening in one woman s head She thinks about her life before her kids were conceived as she contemplates the big secret she and her husband are going to tell their twins in the morning the tomo [...]
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    18. Mike Van Campen says:
      I am a huge fan of Swift s and firmly believe he has written one of the best novels of the last century Waterland , but this novel falls short The premise of the novel is that Paula Cambell Hook 49 is unable to sleep because tomorrow she and her husband will share a secret with their children 16 y.o twins that will supposedly change their world irrevocably This establishes the dramatic tension as the narrator seems to be speaking to her children telling the story of her life with her husband thr [...]
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    19. Audrey says:
      I sure hate to give up in the middle of a book Hate that so much I continued well past the middle But I wish I had quit sooner because reading most of these reviews it seems like the book is not going to redeem itself The entire book is about one night, where a wife mother lays awake talking to herself, her kids rehearsing in her mind for the next day and the reader about what she and her husband are going to tell the kids tomorrow , on their 16th birthday It turns out that the big secret is the [...]
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    20. Tanya says:
      I m listening to this in the car, and it keeps me occupied when I m waiting on the kids to be picked up I wouldn t read this in print though as the story moves too slowly From reading other reviews, I already know what the big secret is and it doesn t seem like a big deal, but I m still mildly curious to hear the rest of the mother s musings If I were not a mom, I don t think I would care though Update At about half way through the CD, I am just feeling bored with this and I don t much care abou [...]
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    21. Tony says:
      TOMORROW 2007 Graham SwiftThis was a disappointing novel from one of my favorite novelists It was the literary equivalent to a once popular TV show, I ve Got A Secret The narrator is a woman of fifty She is in bed with her husband, who is sound asleep She engages in a monologue with her twin children, aged sixteen She tells them than tomorrow will be the day that may end their lives as they know it A secret will be revealed that will turn their world upside down During this warning, she takes ta [...]
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    22. Bookmarks Magazine says:
      Bad books sometimes happen to good authors Despite compelling themes the unpredictability of life, the ways we mask emotional trauma to produce happiness Tomorrow failed to muster praise from even the most generous of critics After building up a doom and gloom scenario, Graham Swift led reviewers to expect a tragedy of monstrous proportions perhaps the children are aliens or the parents serial killers None of these scenarios panned out, leaving critics feeling deflated upon learning the truth A [...]
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    23. Kelly Cooke says:
      Interesting premise for this book a woman lies awake at night, mulling over some huge and life changing news that she and her husband will be sharing with their twin teenagers the following the day The entire book is made up of her thoughts over this night She suggests repeatedly that this news is big and scary enough that she fears her children won t want to know her any The only problem is that the news does not live up to a book full of fearsome thoughts what could and the ending feels like a [...]
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    24. Kirsty Darbyshire says:
      A few months ago I read reviews of this book and thought it sounded good, but when I went to the library I picked up another Graham Swift book and didn t get past the first couple of pages So I wasn t quite sure whether I d like this or not.I did like it It s the internal monologue of a mother recounting events of her life during the night before the morning when she is going to reveal something important to her sixteen year old twin children It s not really about the revelation don t read it lo [...]
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    25. Catarina says:
      When I picked this book up on a Summer I actually found the idea very interesting and was sure to love it.However, like my summer this book proved to be slow, TOO slow I couldn t finish it and it s definitely on my worst books list Regardless, I d still like to finish it one day when I m ready to die of boredom.
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    26. Korrey says:
      i am a fan of graham swift, i have read all of his other books and have really enjoyed them, but this one was not good this book started out okay and i thought there would be so much to it than there actually was i think it is so overdramatic for no reason and i started to really dislike the narrator, the mom, about halfway way through and then just wanted it over.
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    27. Cheryl Davis says:
      I really enjoyed this book at the beginning, but became very frustrated with it as it went on I agree with other reviewers that the definition of fatherhood was incredibly narrow and that the secret was overblown, but I did enjoy the writing style.
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    28. Jojo says:
      This was a very boring book with a very shallow plot At the end my opinion was so what
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    29. Grace Harwood says:
      Here s a book, written by a Booker Prize winning author, described as A Triumph Graham Swift at his impressive best by the TLS, in which precisely nothing happens What does happen, happens painfully slowly, and, quite frankly, if this is his impressive best it s not then don t bother reading anything else by him, ever.Here s the thing Graham Swift IS a great author Waterland, The Sweet Shop Owner, Shuttlecock his earlier fiction in other words are all wonderful books However, during the past few [...]
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    30. Cindy Leighton says:
      Not my favorite Graham Swift novel I am a huge fan but this one was disappointing The big secret just doesn t seem to be that big of a deal a bit of a let down The writing is beautiful as always, but just a bit disappointing.
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