The Light of Day
By Graham Swift

A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEMFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFand MOTHERING SUNDAYand ANDand LAST ORDERS,and and reissued for the first time on the Scribner list,and The Light of Dayand is both a gripping crime story and a remarkable love story.On a cold but dazzling November morningand George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, prepares to visitand Sarah, a prisoner and the woman he loves. As he goes about the business of the day he relives the catastrophic events of two years ago that have both bound them together and kept them apart.and Making atmospheric use of its suburban setting and shot through with a plain man's unwitting poetry and rueful humour,and The Light of Dayand is a powerful and moving tale of murder, redemption and of the discovery, for better or worse, of the hidden forces inside us. A real in-depth study of humanity'and Alex Jones,and BBCand Between the Coversand I loved this so much. The form is so interesting. The voice is just so clear and there's this dryness to him too'and Omari Douglas,and BBCand Between the CoversPraise forand Mothering Sunday:and 'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly… Swift's small fiction feels like a masterpiece'and Guardian Alive with sensuousness and sensuality … wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement'and Sunday Times From start to finish Swift's is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game'and Evening Standard Mothering Sundayand is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives - the parallel stories - we can never know … It may just be Swift's best novel yet'and Observer