Jack Luxton, proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack in it means a crucial journey to receive his brothers remains, but also into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and his wifes past. Wish You Were Here is both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England.