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The Light of Day combines a robust love story and a narrative of intense suspense into a brilliant and tender novel about what drives people to extremes of emotion. Just as his Booker-winning novel Last Orders, Swift transforms ordinary lives through extraordinary storytelling.
This new novel from Graham Swift -- his first because the Booker Prize-winning Last Orders -- is the work of the 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 a course of a single, dazzling day in George’s life, the novel illuminates not only his past but his now all-consuming relationship with a former client.
Intimate and intricate in its evocation of daily existence, The Light of Day achieves a singular intensity and almost unbearable suspense. Tender and humorous in its depiction of life’s surface, Swift explores the depths and extremities of what lies within us and how, for better or worse, it’s never too late to find what they are.
Excerpt from The Light of Day
Two years ago and a little more. October still, but each day like today, blue and clear and crisp. Rita opened my door and said, “Mrs. Nash.”
I had been on my feet, buttoning my jacket. Many of them have no comparisons to go on -- it’s their first-time. It must feel just like coming to a health care provider. They expected something shabbier, seedier, more shaming. The tidy atmosphere, Rita’s doing, surprises and reassures them. Plus the vase of flowers.
White chrysanthemums, I recall.
“Mrs. Nash, please have a seat.”
I could be some high-street solicitor. A fountain-pen in my fingers. Doctor, solicitor -- marriage guidance counsellor. You have to be a bit of most three.
The usual look of plucked-up courage, swallowed-back hesitation, to be somewhere they’d rather not be.
“My hubby is seeing another woman.”
