![]() ![]() ![]() Even so his final walk across the common on a hot summer day, in excruciating pain from angina, is masterly intercut with the recollection of a mile race he won at school, the experience is both exciting and deeply poignant." Chapman's monologue," noted the New Statesman, "spoiling its potential pathos with a too poetic or designed articulacy. "It might be thought that at moments there is something too writerly about Mr.Interspersed with flashbacks to his earlier life, Willy attempts to justify himself to his estranged unforgiving daughter Dorry via an internal monologue. Central to the book is his relationship with his beautiful and yet distant wife Irene who bore him a daughter on the unspoken agreement that no love would be expressed between them. ![]() The book is set on a sunny Friday in June 1974 and describes the routine of what turns out to be the last day in the life of Willy Chapman, the eponymous owner of a South London sweet shop. It was published in 1980 to largely favourable reviews. The Sweet-Shop Owner is the debut novel of English author Graham Swift. ![]()
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