Graham Swifts Last Orders
Last Orders is a moving story about four men, most of then friends, brought together to carry out a fifth’s last orders—to deliver his ashes to the sea. ... ” The distinctive narrative style of the Last Orders sets it apart from other novels. Each section is usually narrated by a different person from the last, each set at just the right time to be juxtaposed against what is happening or what has happened. In addition, Graham Swift makes clever use of present and past tense, making it at first very easy to tell which of the two separate stories is being narrated.