Mothering Sundays - Graham Swift

Another brilliant piece of writing.  A tightly knit world and narrative voice that you just sink into.  A short novel set in the 20s on two country estates.  The whole story unfolds in the course of one afternoon - with flashbacks and background information delivered in asides.  An exploration of the meeting of two young people across the social divide of servant and upper class.  There is a beautiful extended passage where the young servant explores the mansion of her beau stark naked  one afternoon when the house is unusually empty, and after her beau has gone off to meet his bride to be.   A surprising ending... suicide?  Not clear.