Day
Synopsis
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...
Editorial Reviews
"A stunning read" - Daily Mail
"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
"A woman born in 1965 who writes a novel about RAF bomber crew in the second world war needs a gift for bringing history alive, as well as guts and true bravado. AL Kennedy has them all ... her narrative gift is great" - Guardian
"Day is a very good novel. It is largely about love, as most novels are, but the author's skill with language... makes the average cliché unique... Historical details become flesh and funny in her hand" - Katy Guest, Independent
"AL Kennedy has built a reputation as one of the fiercest, most bloody minded and thrilling British writers and her new novel more than backs that up... Day is an utterly engrossing read" - Metro
"Day is a remarkable performance" - Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
"This is a remarkably clean lined book, of highly literary construction, that still feels huge and wide ranging. Day is a forceful, wholly achieved piece of work by a writer of enormous power. It ought to win all the prizes going" - Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph
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