They Came Like Swallows

Discover William Maxwell’s classic, heart-breaking portrait of an ordinary American family struck by the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic

''A story of such engaging warmth that it would thaw the heart of any critic… Will melt many a reader to tears’ TIME

Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman.

Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her elder son, she is someone h...