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Day

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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…

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR A.L.
Kennedy

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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
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape

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