Here We Are: A Novel

"What characterizes every novel by Graham Swift are its brilliant, spare prose and beautifully conceived characters whose seemingly quietly ordinary lives contain multitudes. During the summer of 1959, in a vaudeville show on the pier in Brighton, England, the intertwined lives of three performers – Jack Robbins, the show’s master of ceremonies, Ronnie Deane, magician extraordinaire, and his assistant Evie White – are related in flashbacks and flashforwards. In 200 pages Swift, a magician with words, shows us life’s mysteries, its rewards and its tragedies."