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Distilling half a century into one suspenseful night, as tender in its tone as it is deep in its soundings, 'Tomorrow' is a magical exploration of coupledom, parenthood and selfhood, as well as a meditation on the mystery of happiness.
Graham Swift opens this novel with an epigram from one of John Donne's most powerful poems, "The Good-Morrow":
I wonder by my troth, what thou and I Did, til we loved? Were we not wean'd til then?The poem, in which love makes "one little room an everywhere," is the perfectly in-gazing anthem for Paula and Mike Hook, married 25 years and still having self-admittedly great sex; a pair that spawned another pair, twins Nick and Kate, who have just turned 16. But lying awake on a rainy June night in 1995, her husband slumbering beside her, Paula has little reason to hope her morrow will be good. She and Mike have kept a secret from their children that, by agreement, they will reveal in the morning. The secret -- what it is, how it came to be, how it will irrevocably change this happy middle-class family -- makes up the 250 pages of this sometimes trenchant, sometimes turgid novel. It is to Swift's great credit that even such a slender, self-absorbed story can still yield so much: not directly, through the revelation or working out of its overhyped secret, but through its narrator's unexamined ambivalence about the very family she seeks to protect.
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