In Waterland, Tom Crick, a history teacher in the Fenlands, is driven by a marital crisis and the provocation of one of his pupils to forsake his teaching and relate the story of his family, who have lived in the Fens since the eighteenth century. In Last Orders, four men once close to jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.
- ISBN13 9780330481434
- Publish Date 12 November 1999
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 13 July 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Format Paperback
- Pages 672
- Language English