The Light Of Day Graham Swift by Graham Swift 9781471161964, 147116196X, B01JZOSXIC instant download after payment.

Graham Swift’s powerful and atmospheric tale of murder, redemption and of the discovery, for better or worse, of the hidden forces inside us.

On a cold but dazzling November morning, George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, prepares to visit 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.

"Swift is a virtuoso of narrative ventriloquism; he inhabits his characters through their voices. Swift manages this patterning of motives with exquisite economy." -  The New York Times Book Review

"If the story is conventional, its telling is anything but. Swift consistently uses complex and unconventional narrative strategies to explore his grand themes of the past's encroachment on the present and the link between private stories and public histories. (....) This is beautifully crafted fiction: profound, elliptical in purpose and addressing the big issues with understated elegance."  -  Liam Davison, Sydney Morning Herald

Graham Swift is the author of eleven novels and two collections of short stories. His work includes the highly acclaimed England and Other Stories, and Making an Elephant, a book of essays, portraits, poetry and reflections on his life in writing. His novel Mothering Sunday became an international bestseller and won The Hawthornden Prize for best work of imaginative literature. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and with Last Orders the 1996 Booker Prize.