John Self

Cosy, comforting and a bit inconsequential: Here We Are, by Graham Swift, reviewed

Set largely in 1950s Brighton, this backward-looking novel can feel as though it were written in that decade too

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  • Here We Are

    Graham Swift

    Scribner, pp. 208, £14

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