The Sway of Winter Biography King Edward’s visit

King Edward’s visit

We encounter a servant who meets Henry VIII

Richard Ford compared his work to the writings of Mark Twain

jaunting along the coast in his old car

The Sway of Winter Biography King Edward’s visitThe Sway of Winter tells the story of Birgit, a young Scandinavian woman who has moved to the island of Inis Breac to paint, and to recover from a suffocating relationship. Geoff, an English widower, shattered by years of hard drinking after his wifes drowning, runs the local bookshop. Birgit visits Africa in a quest to decide her future in working among the deprived, but finds there only a mirror of an inner poverty. This finely wrought debut novel