The Light of Day

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii (last blank)], 244. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine; black endpapers. Dustjacket cover photograph by Tim Platt, priced at £16.99 to front flap.

Signed by Author to title page. Lightly toned to textblock edges, else Fine.

Swift's seventh novel. Long-listed for the 2003 Booker Prize for Fiction. A day in the life of an ex-cop turned PI and his all-consuming relationship with a former client, imprisoned for murder. By the author of Waterland, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Award; Ever After, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger; and Last Orders, which was awarded the 1996 Booker Prize.

"An intense meditation on love and murder.... Graham Swift distills emotion and incident into a hypnotic elixir. He is simply one of the most sure-handed, savvy and remarkable writers now at work." –The Washington Post Book World