A.L. Kennedy April 16, 2008

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Moving back and forth between 1949, when Alfred Day is employed as an extra in a war film, and his real wartime experiences as a tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber, A. L. Kennedy’s fifth novel Day (Vintage) is a powerful story about the brutal simplicities of war – of horror, and the camaraderie found in the closeness to death – and a moving exploration of the complexities of human emotion. It recently won the Costa book award. Eileen Battersby wrote in the Irish Times ‘Day is more than a novel, it is an investigation into the difficulties of being alive.’

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