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Day

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099494058

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £8.99

Day

Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too.
Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film that echoes his real experience, Day begins to recall what he would rather forget...

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099494058

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • "Kennedy is described in the literary press as not only one of our finest, but also one of our most humane, writers"

    Church Times

  • "Day confirms, if confirmation were needed, that Kennedy is a singular, superlative author. I hope that the judges of this year's Man Booker prize pay particular attention to it"

    Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday

  • "Kennedy does bleak the way the Russians do epic; unremittingly, awesomely and undershot with redeeming humour"

    Gillian Bowditch, Sunday Times

  • "Once again, Kennedy brilliantly interweaves over-wrought internal dialogue with external outrageous acts. The unfolding tenderness of nature and of amity blend superbly with the casualness of daily horror"

    Catherine Taylor, Independent on Sunday

  • "Day is more than a novel, it is an investigations into the difficulties of being alive"

    Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

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About the Author

A.L. Kennedy

A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

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