Book by Swift Graham
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Graham Swift was born in 1949 in London. He is the author of six previous novels and a short story collection. His work has been widely translated and has won prizes internationally, including the Booker Prize for <b>Last Orders</b>.
<b>The Light of Day</b> combines a powerful love story and a narrative of intense suspense into a brilliant and tender novel about what drives people to extremes of emotion. As in his Booker-winning novel <b>Last Orders</b>, Swift transforms ordinary lives through extraordinary storytelling.<br><br>This new novel from Graham Swift -- his first since the Booker Prize-winning <b>Last Orders</b> -- is the work of a master storyteller. <b>The Light of Day</b> is a luminous and gripping tale of love, murder and redemption.<br><br>George Webb is a divorced ex-policeman turned private investigator, a man whose prospects seemed in ruins not so long ago. Following the 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. <br><br>Intimate and intricate in its evocation of daily existence, <b>The Light of Day</b> 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 discover what they are.<br><br><b>Excerpt from <i>The Light of Day</i></b><br><i>Two years ago and a little more. October still, but a day like today, blue and clear and crisp. Rita opened my door and said, “Mrs. Nash.”<br><br>I was already on my feet, buttoning my jacket. Most of them have no comparisons to go on -- it’s their first time. It must feel like coming to a doctor. They expected something shabbier, seedier, more shaming. The tidy atmosphere, Rita’s doing, surprises and reassures them. And the vase of flowers.<br><br>White chrysanthemums, I recall.<br><br>“Mrs. Nash, please have a seat.”<br><br>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 all three.<br><br>The usual look of plucked-up courage, swallowed-back hesitation, of being somewhere they’d rather not be.<br><br>“My husband is seeing another woman.”</i>
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