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Editorial Review:
'Beautifully written . . . Reading groups will find plenty to discuss.'
'...wondrously malleable prose perfectly evokes the stream of semi-consciousness that gushes through one's head at three in the morning.'
'Graham Swift is a master of ordinary voices and Paula's is tender and almost embarrassingly honest...'
'Writing in his gentle, subtle style, Swift builds the tension beautifully'
'Tomorrow goes to the heart of what it is that defines us and of what it means to love and to fear loss.'
On a midsummer's night, Paula lies awake, Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her, her two teenage children, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will define all their lives. As morning approaches, Paula recalls the years before and after her children were born. Her story is both a celebration of love possessed and a moving acknowledgement of the fear of loss, the fragilities, illusions and secrets on which even our most intimate sense of who we are can rest.'A triumph ...This is Graham Swift at his impressive best' - "Times Literary Supplement". 'Paula talks the way that people actually talk ...this is part of Swift's overwhelming honesty as a writer: he writes the way that life goes' - Anne Enright, "Guardian". 'The rhythms of long-term partnership become the rhymes of the narrative itself ...a subtle picture emerges of how coupledom is deepened by parenthood' - Robert MacFarlane, "Sunday Times". 'As assured and subtle as ever ...Swift artfully reminds us that no set of relationships is ever free from complication and concealment' - "Spectator".
'Paula's anguish is beautifully captured, as is her tenderness towards her loved ones' - "Mail on Sunday".
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
Writer's strengths in this case show as weaknesses Like several reviewers, I too always appreciate Swift's writing; this time, it is sadly disappointing. The ability to reach inside a character and trace history back (or forwards) through time and circumstance, the ability to create layered and complex characterisation just don't cohere here. I think the basic structure is flawed and perhaps a more conventional time line would have worked better in this instance. I sussed what the denoument would be within the first few pages (honestly!) ; as soon as... more info
tedious beyond words I wish I had read the reviews here before I bought this book. I too am a huge Swift fan and own all his books but this was unbelievably turgid. I had to drag myself from page to page and in the end gave up, totally hating the narrator and wondering what all the fuss was about.
What kind of a judgment day will tomorrow be? The tone is unmistakeably Graham Swiftian: the monologues - the looking back from a given moment to the past - a secret to be in due course revealed - the odd tangential idea in brackets - lots of questions inside the monologue - musings about biological processes in the human and the animal world - a feeling for landscape. I have loved all those features in Swift's earlier novels, but I have to say, it took longer in this novel than in the previous ones for me to feel involved. The first half of the book,... more info
Tomorrow takes forever to arrive In Tomorrow, Graham Swift's novel published in 2007, he employs the same technique he used in Light of Day. Light of Day involved a detective mulling, over the course of a single day, over past events and piecing the fragments together to form a cohesive and striking story. In Tomorrow, the person doing the thinking is Paula Hook, art dealer, ex 60s' chick and mother of sixteen year-old twins. Only it's more like pontification than thinking. Paula is awake through the night and dreading the next day... more info
