The Light of Day

Ordinary lives are transformed through extraordinary storytelling as Swift combines a powerful love story and a narrative of intense suspense into a brilliant and tender novel about what drives people to extremes of emotion.

Graham Swift was born in 1949 in London, where he still lives and works. He is the author of six novels: <b>The Sweet-Shop Owner</b>; <b>Shuttlecock</b>, which received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; <b>Waterland</b>, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Award, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour; <b><i>Out of This World; Ever After</i></b>, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger; and <b>Last Orders</b>, which was awarded the Booker Prize. He is also the author of <b>Learning to Swim</b>, a collection of short stories. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.