The Sweet-Shop Owner

by Graham Swift

Genres: Family Life; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

The Sweet-Shop Owner is set during a single June day in the life of an outwardly unremarkable man whose inner world proves to be exceptionally resonant. As he tends to his customers, Willy Chapman, the sweet-shop owner, confronts the specters of his beautiful and distant wife and his clever, angry daughter, the history through which he has passed, and the great, unrequited passion that has tormented him for forty years.

Release date: September 19, 2012

Publisher: Vintage

Print pages: 224