In June 1996, Swift declared that it was a homage to Faulkner's book but there were various differences. As the quartet journeys from London by car to honour Jack's request, with stops at Canterbury Cathedral, the Chatham Naval Memorial, the hop farm where Jack and Amy met and a couple of pubs, they reminisce about their friend. The Guardian’s excellent Booker blog summed up the controversy best, with the pertinent question “Who gives a shit?

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2001 and was shown at the San Sebastián Film Festival, the Warsaw Film Festival, the Reykjavik Film Festival, and the London Film Festival before opening in the US on 7 December 2001. How was he to know the value of the place would skyrocket after he’s sold it too cheap in the first place?Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. It’s in such characters (like Waterland’s Dick) that the petty foibles of the more “mundane” characters around them are exposed, powerfully and cleverly. There are bantering friendships among men who only meet regularly in the pub, reputations based on hearsay and gossip—it’s Lenny, I think, who complains about Ray not sharing his luck enough—and women they know about but don’t really know. He’s a natural fighter, literally at first—he was a middleweight boxer before the war—and he’s permanently chippy. Jack also took over his family business, but felt trapped, like he never had a choice in the matter.

She is able to give us a lot of insights into how Jack picked her up at Billingsgate, how ambiguous it is whether he fancied her, as she believed, or was just looking for another daughter-substitute as Vince thinks. Another was the idea that Vince would follow him to be the next ‘and Son,’ a project Vince sabotaged by signing up for the army for five years. Not much thought would have gone into this and of course it had nothing to do with any known ability, so it was no different from wanting to be an engine driver.Vince had had an infatuation with Lenny's daughter, Sally that lasted through most of his childhood. Over the years Jack barely acknowledged her existence but Amy faithfully visited her weekly, even though June had no idea of who she was or why she visited.