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Former London police detective George Webb, "booted off the force" for trying in all the wrong ways to put away the right man, is now a private investigator specializing in matrimonial cases. He has crossed a line with a client, wholly upending his own life. By the close of this remarkable novel, which unfolds over the course of one day in George's life and mind, we will know him intimately from his childhood secrets to his fall from grace as a cop. In its slow and revelatory accumulation of physical and emotional detail, The light of day illumines the ambiguities at the heart of the most profound and inexplicable human emotions: fear and hate, love and desire
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The Light of Day, Graham Swift
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- Released
- 2018
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- Title
- The Light of Day
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Graham Swift
- Publisher
- SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 147116196X
- ISBN13
- 9781471161964
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Love, Thriller, Murders, Fun, British Literature, England, Great Britain, Detective, English Literature, London, Prison, Divorce, Infidelity, Daughters, Private Detective, Refugees, Police Officers
- First published
- 2003
- Original title
- The Light of Day
- Rating
- 3.25 out of 5
- Description
- Former London police detective George Webb, "booted off the force" for trying in all the wrong ways to put away the right man, is now a private investigator specializing in matrimonial cases. He has crossed a line with a client, wholly upending his own life. By the close of this remarkable novel, which unfolds over the course of one day in George's life and mind, we will know him intimately from his childhood secrets to his fall from grace as a cop. In its slow and revelatory accumulation of physical and emotional detail, The light of day illumines the ambiguities at the heart of the most profound and inexplicable human emotions: fear and hate, love and desire