Pillow talk. It's how you know, it's how you tell, that something different, something special is happening: that this might even be the most important night of your life. Some day -some night- I hope you both may know it, with whoever it may be: the wish, stealing up on you, not to just merge bodies, but all you have, all your years, all your memories up to that point. And why should you wish to do that, if you haven't already guessed that your future too, will be shared?

Some of Swift's books have been filmed including Last Orders starring Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins and Waterland starring Jeremy Irons. Swift was acquainted with Ted Hughes and has himself publiGraham Swiftd poetry of note some of which is included in Making an Elephant: Writing from Within (2009). I think in general it’s been a good thing.

Last Orders was joint-winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and a mildly controversial winner of the 1996 Booker Prize owing to the superficial similarities in plot to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Born in London England he was educated at Dulwich College London Queens' College Cambridge and later the University of York. Waterland is set in The Fens; a novel of landscape history and family it is often cited as one of the outstanding post-war British novels and has been a set text on the English literature syllabus in British schools.