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The
2005 Award
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The Light of Day by Graham Swift
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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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, 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... Intimate and intricate in its evocation of daily existence, The Light of Day still achieves an extraordinary intensity and unbearable suspense. Tender and humorous in its depiction of life's surface, it explores the extremities of what lies within us and how it's never too late to discover what these are. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Graham
Swift was born in London in 1949. He is the author of six other novels:
The Sweet Shop Owner; Shuttlecock; Waterland, which
was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Award,
the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour;
Out of this World; Ever After, which won the French Prix du Meilleur
Livre Étranger; and Last Orders, which won the 1996 Booker
Prize. He has also published a collection of short stories, Learning
to Swim. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. |
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