The Light of Day
The Light of Day combines a powerful love story and a narrative of intense suspense into a brilliant and tender novel about what drives people to extremes of emotion. As in his Booker-winning novel Last Orders, Swift transforms ordinary lives through extraordinary storytelling.
This new novel from Graham Swift -- his first since the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders -- is the work of a master storyteller. The Light of Day is a luminous and gripping tale of love, murder and redemption.
George Webb is a divorced ex-policeman turned private investigator, a man whose prospects seemed in ruins not so long ago. Following the course of a single, dazzling day in George’s life, the novel illuminates not only his past but his now…
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May 11, 2004GRAHAM SWIFT was born in 1949 and is the author of ten novels, two collections of short stories, and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry, and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won The Guardian Fiction Award, and with Last Orders, the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. His work has appeared in more than thirty languages.
Twelve Post-War Tales
Graham Swift
Here We Are
Graham Swift
Mothering Sunday
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England and Other Stories
Graham Swift
Wish You Were Here
Graham Swift
Making an Elephant
Graham Swift
Tomorrow
Graham Swift
Last Orders
Graham Swift
The Light of Day
Graham Swift
Waterland
Graham Swift
Out Of This World
Graham Swift