The Light of Day
by:
Graham Swift (author)
Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband's affair. The visits - and the days between - lead George back into Sarah's past and into events he can picture only too well, while bringing him ever closer to a...
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Sarah is in prison. Every fortnight she is visited by George, the private eye she employed to observe the final stage of her husband's affair. The visits - and the days between - lead George back into Sarah's past and into events he can picture only too well, while bringing him ever closer to a time he can't quite imagine - when she will once again step out into the clear light of day...This is a brilliant tale of love, murder and suspense, from one of Britain's finest writers.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141012018 (0141012013)
Publish date: May 1st 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Modern
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Took me a while to get into it instead of just being cranky at the author for withholding cliffhanger-y information, but then I got grabbed narratively as well as suspensely and was breathless for the rest.(Clearly when reviewing books I need plus good wordspeak)
Gave this up pretty quickly. I attempted the audio version, so perhaps it translates poorly in that format, but the style made the story entirely impossible to comprehend. I kept checking my ipod to see if it was skipping chapters because there seemed to be no coherent narrative. Just as I thought I...
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