Graham Swift lives in London and is the author of
several novels incuding, The Sweet - Shop Owner; Shuttlecock, which received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Waterland, which was short - listed
for the Booker Prize and won The Guardian Fiction Award, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour; Out of This World; Ever After, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger;
Last Orders, which was awarded the Booker Prize; The Light of
Day; Tomorrow; and most recently Mothering Sunday.
This task has become easier over the
last decade with the development of advanced methods of Data Assimilation commonly used in atmospheric sciences to optimally combine a short forecast with the latest meteorological observations in
order to create accurate initial conditions
for weather forecasts generated
several times a
day by the National Weather Services (e.g., [194,195,196,197,198]-RRB-.