In 2021 it was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Eva Husson and starring Odessa Young, Glenda Jackson, Olivia Colman and Colin Firth.

After they have sex Paul dresses to go meet his fiancée, Emma Hobday, and leaves Jane alone in the house, warning her of when his parents plan to return.

Finally leaving Paul's home she returns to the Nivens' estate, Beechwood, early planning to spend the rest of her afternoon reading.

Later that night unable to sleep Jane finally continues to read her book which contains the short story Youth by Joseph Conrad.

[1] James Runcie in The Independent said that "Swift is an undoubted master of detail and delay, working by a process of meditation and accumulation to create a narrative that carries far more heft than one might assume from its length...What matters is more style and impression than content: the persistence of memory and the ensuing feeling of dissociation that rises in Jane Fairchild.

[3] In NPR, Heller McAlpin explained that Mothering Sunday "builds in complexity with its layering of revelations and memories over time.

It is about this remarkably self-possessed woman's ability to regard the "clean sheet" she was given at birth, free from pedigree or history, as an 'innate license to invent' — and a dead-end affair as a gateway to "untethered" possibility.

"[5] In 2021, a film adaptation of Mothering Sunday was released, directed by Eva Husson and starring Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Olivia Colman, and Colin Firth.