Book description
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose
as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark
fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found
Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it
away. Maybe it took him, too.
Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film that echoes his real
experience, Day begins to recall what he would rather forget...
A. L. Kennedy has published four previous novels, two books of
non-fiction, and three collections of short stories, most recently
Indelible Acts
. She has twice been selected as one of
Granta
's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a number of prizes
including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire
Scottish Book of the Year Award. She lives in Glasgow and is a part-time
lecturer in creative writing at St Andrews.
