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Graham Swift
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Category: Fiction | Published: 1996 | Review Added: Unknown
A group of working class Londoners drive off to Margate to throw their dead mate's ashes out to sea. They take turns to muse on their friendships and romances, and complex emotional entanglements gradually unfold. Moving, profound, well-paced - but the story is not told linearly, so is quite confusing for the easily confused (like me). Some day I intend to re-read it.
Won the Booker Prize a few years back, deservedly.