- Published: 1 May 2010
- ISBN: 9781407017280
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
Day
- Published: 1 May 2010
- ISBN: 9781407017280
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
Kennedy is described in the literary press as not only one of our finest, but also one of our most humane, writers
Church Times
Day confirms, if confirmation were needed, that Kennedy is a singular, superlative author. I hope that the judges of this year's Man Booker prize pay particular attention to it
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Day is a remarkable performance
Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
Day is a very good novel. It is largely about love, as most novels are, but the author's skill with language... makes the average cliché unique... Historical details become flesh and funny in her hand
Katy Guest, Independent
Day is more than a novel, it is an investigations into the difficulties of being alive
Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
AL Kennedy has built a reputation as one of the fiercest, most bloody minded and thrilling British writers and her new novel more than backs that up... Day is an utterly engrossing read
Metro
Kennedy does bleak the way the Russians do epic; unremittingly, awesomely and undershot with redeeming humour
Gillian Bowditch, Sunday Times
Once again, Kennedy brilliantly interweaves over-wrought internal dialogue with external outrageous acts. The unfolding tenderness of nature and of amity blend superbly with the casualness of daily horror
Catherine Taylor, Independent on Sunday
This is a remarkably clean lined book, of highly literary construction, that still feels huge and wide ranging. Day is a forceful, wholly achieved piece of work by a writer of enormous power. It ought to win all the prizes going
Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph
Well deserved to win the 2007 Costa book of the year award...sophisticated texture...Ms Kennedy manages to make every battle truism fresh
Economist