- An academic sits alone in his college room thinking about the people he has lost. Powerful memories crowd in on him - childhood days in Paris; his exuberant, glamorous mother; his mysterious father; and the brash young American who becomes his step-father. Mingled with this emerges a tender portrait of his relationship with his actress wife. Ever After is a poignant elegy to lost faith and lost hope. It is also a powerful affirmation of love. "Once in a precious while you read a novel which, every few chapters, makes you shiver with self-recognition. Ever After is such a novel" - Daily Mail. "Swift is set apart by his acute observation and thrilling exactness of description... Exceptional" - The Times.