
2009 Longlist
Day
ABOUT
THE BOOK
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…
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
A terribly painful, but also beautiful and often very funny novel about a shy young Englishman who became a tail gunner in a Lancaster bomber in the Second World War.
Author is popular with our book groups, having visited some them.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
Scotland
Original Language
English
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Nominating Library