Former London police detective George Webb, "booted off the force" for trying in all the wrong ways to put away the right man, is now a private investigator specializing in matrimonial cases. He has crossed a line with a client, wholly upending his own life. By the close of this remarkable novel, which unfolds over the course of one day in George's life and mind, we will know him intimately from his childhood secrets to his fall from grace as a cop. In its slow and revelatory accumulation of physical and emotional detail, THE LIGHT OF DAY illumines the ambiguities at the heart of the most profound and inexplicable human emotions: fear and hate, love and desire.
This is an intense, beautifully written novel that recounts one day in the life of George Webb, once a police detective (dismissed for "corrupt practices"), now a private investigator specializing in domestic cases. The novel is about why we do what we do. So, along with the day's events, we hear George's version of how his past has made him who he is. Graeme Malcolm's reading is wonderful. George Webb, the central character, is also the narrator for most of the novel, and Malcolm becomes Webb. His reading makes us believe and almost understand all of Webb's "why did I ..." and "if only I had ..." The story jumps between different periods in Webb's past and his immediate present, yet Malcolm never lets us become lost. In his voice, we always know where we are because we know George. R.E.K. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Award winning author Graham Swift was born in 1949 in London where he still lives and works. He is the author of six previously published novels including LAST ORDERS, which was awarded the Booker Prize and was made into a critically-acclaimed film released February, 2002, starring Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, David Hemmings, Tom Courtenay, and Helen Mirren. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
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