THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2011 by Graham Swift
Al rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Original y published in Great Britain by Picador, an imprint of
Pan Macmil an Ltd., London, in 2011.
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of
Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Swift, Graham, [date]
Wish you were here / by Graham Swift.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-95766-5
1. Brothers—Fiction. 2. Soldiers—Death—Fiction. 3.
1. Brothers—Fiction. 2. Soldiers— Death—Fiction. 3.
Devon (England)—Fiction. 4. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PR6069.W47W57 2012
823’.914—dc23 2011050296
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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Jacket design by Jason Booher
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Are these things done on
Albion’s shore?
—Wil iam Blake, “A Little Boy
Lost”
Contents
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
