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Day

A.L. Kennedy

3.46 · Rating details · 591 ratings · 91 reviews

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.

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Published April 5th 2007 by Jonathan Cape (first published 2007)

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Oct 15, 2009 ·Karen· rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favourites, brits

Ms Kennedy should have a category of her own with different coloured stars, or the option to have the stars squared, 3D at the very least. She's a writer who expects a lot of her reader, and I like that. The opening chapter of this novel is a struggle, even the second time round it's not a smooth ride, no familiar easy ground, nothing recognizable, nothing we can sort into easy categories. Ms Kennedy disorientates you just as much as Alfie Day, the main character is disorientated, lost, thrown o ...more

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Dec 12, 2011 Fionnuala added it

Shelves: 21st-century-favourites, al-kennedy

Reviewed in 2012
I like books about heroes, unassuming heroes, the quiet ones who never get promotion, never get awards for bravery. Alfred Day, turret gunner in a bomber squad during WWII is one such hero, a man of huge and noble courage who is constantly beset by his own personal armoury of fears and terrors.

I also like books where authors take risks and experiment with voice. But the author must keep the narrative sufficiently lucid, she must remember her duty to her readers. AL Kennedy takes ...more

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Mar 19, 2011 Cynthia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read-in-2011

Enough about war already……or not.

At a time when we’re all sick of hearing about and seeing the consequences of war this is a book about war well worth reading. At 15 Alfred Day lies about his age and joins the RAF as a gunner to get away from his violent father and his small Midlands town that threatens a lack luster life and escapes to see the world or at least bomb it one target and mission at a time. The story is told in the third person with forays into the second person point of view and Al ...more

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Apr 12, 2013 Lisa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: c21st, britain, library-book-or-loan

Even though I’ll soon be celebrating the 50th anniversary of my arrival here in Australia, I still feel an inordinate sense of British pride in the WW2 achievements of the RAF. Those young men who took to the skies against Nazism are heroes to me, as they were to beleaguered Britain, fighting alone while the rest of Europe had capitulated and her American allies were still clinging to isolationism. As everyone knows, the casualty rate was shocking - while bomber crews had a better chance than th Even though I’ll soon be celebrating the 50th anniversary of my arrival here in Australia, I still feel an inordinate sense of British pride in the WW2 achievements of the RAF. Those young men who took to the skies against Nazism are heroes to me, as they were to beleaguered Britain, fighting alone while the rest of Europe had capitulated and her American allies were still clinging to isolationism. As everyone knows, the casualty rate was shocking - while bomber crews had a better chance than the heroic pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain, more than one in two of the Bomber Command crews died. As Churchill said in his famous speech

Source: Wikipedia The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. All hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day, but we must never forget that all the time, night after night, month after month, our bomber squadrons travel far into Germany, find their targets in the darkness by the highest navigational skill, aim their attacks, often under the heaviest fire, often with serious loss, with deliberate, careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the technical and war-making structure of the Nazi power. On no part of the Royal Air Force does the weight of the war fall more heavily than on the daylight bombers who will play an invaluable part in the case of invasion and whose unflinching zeal it has been necessary in the meanwhile on numerous occasions to restrain… (Source: Wikipedia)

These stirring words notwithstanding, the young men of those bomber crews were dealing in death. They knew that they had a poor chance of surviving for very long, and that if they did survive they had every chance of losing all their friends. They also knew that they themselves were killing large numbers of the enemy. At an age when they should have been falling in love, setting up house and bringing up a family they were bonding instead with other young men who were likewise risking their lives to rain death and destruction on others. They suffered grief and loss when their friends died; they felt survivor guilt; and they were plagued with remorse for the civilian deaths they were inflicting. The psychological burden must have been extraordinary, no less so after the war.

The acclaimed British author A.L.Kennedy has taken this premise to ask the question: what was it like for one of these surviving airmen in the aftermath? In her latest novel Day, she explores the tortured mind of Alfred Day, former RAF gunner and tailman who leaves his postwar job in a bookshop to work as an extra on a POW film in Germany. It is indeed a strange thing to do.

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Oct 22, 2017 Jane rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The first 80 or so pages were a real slog, and I almost ditched it numerous times, feeling that I was working way too hard for too little reward (and even too little basic understanding of what the hell was going on). The only things that kept me going were the many reviews here that warned that reading the beginning was a lot of hard work, but promised that it would all be worth it in the end. They were right. I'm not sure that the first part needs to be quite so impenetrable and challenging, b ...more

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Nov 12, 2012 Laurie Neighbors rated it it was amazing

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Technically, a brilliant example of how to write a researched novel. But also brilliant in so many other ways as well. I had started the book once before and found it a bit cold. But on this second attempt, I trudged through the early emotional distance and let Kennedy shape me into a slobbering, empathetic mess in the final fourth of the novel. Just as I like it.

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Apr 29, 2013 Bettie marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: wwii, historical-fiction

A.L. Kennedy - winner of 2007 Costa Book of the Year Award

Dedication: THA MÓRAN AN SO

Opening: Alfred was growing a moustache.

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Mar 29, 2019 Emer Tannam rated it did not like it

Why did I read this book? I told myself that I’d never read another book about the first or Second World War, and yet I picked up this book. It was nothing I hadn’t read before, and at times the style of writing was confusing and annoying. Never again.

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Jul 19, 2018 DebsD rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ㅡz018-52in52weeks, fiction, action-adventure, ㅡz018-bookish, literary, ㅡz018-atozchallenge, love, ㅡz018-nblchallenge, romance, ㅡz018-aroundtheyear

I started this more than once, finding the early pages confusing and difficult to follow, not being pulled in by it at all - but the many glowing reviews convinced me to keep trying. Was it worth it? Well, yes - the writing is technically good and the main character is complex. Is it something I'd be recommending to others? Well, no. It never did really grab me, I'm afraid. Perhaps the somewhat broken narrative is supposed to illustrate the broken character of Alfred Day, but it also meant that ...more

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Aug 06, 2015 Pamela Scott rated it it was ok

Shelves: al-kennedy

Day just didn’t work for me. I really wanted to enjoy it. I’ve wanted to read more of Kennedy since I loved Everything You Need. I’ve seen Day in the library numerous times and thought it sounded great. Kennedy doesn’t pull it off with Day.

STRUCTURE: Kennedy doesn’t number the chapters in Day. The chapter started a few lines down from the top so you knew when you were starting a new one. This niggled me a bit. I like to flick through to the next chapter so I can judge how long it is so I know if Day just didn’t work for me. I really wanted to enjoy it. I’ve wanted to read more of Kennedy since I loved Everything You Need. I’ve seen Day in the library numerous times and thought it sounded great. Kennedy doesn’t pull it off with Day.

STRUCTURE: Kennedy doesn’t number the chapters in Day. The chapter started a few lines down from the top so you knew when you were starting a new one. This niggled me a bit. I like to flick through to the next chapter so I can judge how long it is so I know if I have enough time to read it. Day has a lot of time shifts and the narrative moves from Alfred making the movie back to various memories of his experiences in the war. The transition was not as smooth as it could have been. I got a bit lost a few times and took a few pages to figure out where I was. Kennedy uses a mix of third and second person often in the same chapter. This does not work and made the whole narrative a bit disjointed. I really enjoyed the writing at times but there are fairly large sections when the whole novel becomes a bit of a rambling, incoherent mess.

PLACE: I didn’t get any real impression of the world Kennedy was trying to create in Day. I thought I would enjoy the time shifts to Alfred’s experiences in the war. I didn’t get any real sense the war was happening. It was all a big vague and wishy-washy. I wanted to read a world so real that I felt like I was part of the war. Kennedy doesn’t pull this off. I didn’t feel the world Kennedy tried to create in Day. It was too bland.

CHARACTERISATION: The whole narrative is told from Alfred’s perspective. I found this suffocating at times. Kennedy makes it clear Alfred has been traumatised by the war. He is damaged. Kennedy doesn’t make it clear enough why he has been damaged. He was a prisoner of war but Kennedy failed to make me care enough about him. The other characters including Joyce and his crew in the war are little more than blurry outlines. I got no real sense of who any of these people were. Alfred wasn’t enough to carry the story. I was indifferent to his plight. I found the constant switching from second to third person very intrusive. I have no issue with a writer creating a complex narrative. This can be excellent and powerful if done well. This is not the case with Day. The thoughts in italics also grated. I just didn’t like Alfred enough and the other characters were bland nobody’s.

PLOT: I wasn’t all that impressed with the story Kennedy offers in Day. Alfred decides to get over the horror of being a prisoner of war in World War II by acting as a prisoner of war in a movie about World War II? Huh? I didn’t buy this premise. I found it weird that Alfred was going to star in a movie only a few years after the war ended. I just thought this was odd. I think Day would have been stronger if Alfred starred in the movie years after the war. I also found his age odd. He’s only 25. I didn’t find his story compelling enough. I thought Day would be a good read about the horrors of war and post-traumatic stress disorder. Kennedy falls to deliver. ...more

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Feb 12, 2018 Sandra Danby rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, world-war-two

‘Day’, the title of this novel by AL Kennedy, does not refer to a period of twenty-four hours, but to Alfred Francis Day. Alfie. Rear gunner in a Lancaster in World War Two and now extra on the set of a war film. Past and present are mingled together as he starts to remember things he would rather forget. The passages in the bomber are electrifying, in their detail and understanding. The cold, the smell, the fear, how the professionalism of their training kicks in when the action starts. It is t ‘Day’, the title of this novel by AL Kennedy, does not refer to a period of twenty-four hours, but to Alfred Francis Day. Alfie. Rear gunner in a Lancaster in World War Two and now extra on the set of a war film. Past and present are mingled together as he starts to remember things he would rather forget. The passages in the bomber are electrifying, in their detail and understanding. The cold, the smell, the fear, how the professionalism of their training kicks in when the action starts. It is totally believable..
The timelines are mixed here as Alfred's memories are inter-mingled: when Alfred was a member of the bomber crew; his time in a prisoner-of-war camp; and as a film extra in 1949. Where the novel is not so clear, for me, is the intermingling of these three timelines, though after fifty pages everything started to clarify. If you find this, persist and everything will fall into place.
Through Alfred’s memories and his conversations with Ivor, his post-war employer at a bookshop, his bomber crew and the other film extras, we start to piece together the story of his life. It is particularly poignant when he falls in love, heavily, after a fleeting encounter during a bombing raid in London. He meets Joyce in a shelter and from then on she fills his head, when his head should be concentrating on shooting down enemy fighters as his crew drops bombs on Hamburg. ‘Turning his head and turning his head while the heath beyond him dreams, his head pressing back in his pillow and eyes closed and no clear memory he can see, only the wonder that her heartbeat was everywhere in her skin.’
Alfie is a complex character. He is a small man who reads to educate himself. He is nicknamed ‘Boss’ by his flight crew even though he is not the skipper. In flight training, he asks Sergeant Hartnell to show him how to fight and win. ‘Look, son… You’re not the first. Happens quite often in fact. Lads come along and they ask me for help… help with an argument they’ve got to settle back home…’ He tells Alfred his best bet is to hit them from behind with a bit of pipe, but when Alfred gets his chance he throws bricks.
We learn most about him as he remembers his mother and father, both of whom die during the war. In Alfred’s head, his mother and Joyce seem connected and he learns that memories are fickle, the things we would rather forget are the ones that return. ‘Some memories, the ones you’d rather keep – the more you tried to look at them, the more they wore away.’
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Jan 24, 2008 Mark Desrosiers rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction

A tiny WWII Lanc tailgunner volunteers as an extra in some postwar prison camp documentary, and then returns to his job at a used book store. That's the basic plot, but there's so much nasty in between. The constant shifting back and forth of the wounded narrative never lets you go. Plus, "you" are him -- the second-person voice kicks in frequently enough to make you wonder (when you're finished) whether you have a reliable narrator here. In the end -- the very last page -- things turn shifty-ey A tiny WWII Lanc tailgunner volunteers as an extra in some postwar prison camp documentary, and then returns to his job at a used book store. That's the basic plot, but there's so much nasty in between. The constant shifting back and forth of the wounded narrative never lets you go. Plus, "you" are him -- the second-person voice kicks in frequently enough to make you wonder (when you're finished) whether you have a reliable narrator here. In the end -- the very last page -- things turn shifty-eyed and ambiguous, cast a pall (if palls may be cast) over many of the previous grim events. Makes me want to reread it, pry between the winks, scabs, and grudges.

Kennedy knows how to throw a description at your knees, usually things you thought could never be described, such as killing your dad with a brick, pitching desperate woo at a married bomb-shelter skirt, or (best of all) eating fear in the skies:

--thumbs firing and arse over tip into the corkskrew, thumbs firing and more noise than you can hear, thumbs firing and the gleam of tracer and churning at angles you don't understand, falling as if you will die and a bitterness filling your lungs and the belt cutting into your hip and doing no bloody good to hold you and the fit of the turret is close and you think of coffins and down Q for Queenie runs and surely you'll hit the water before you tear up, flat out, sick and staring.

Like that. Best fiction writer in the English language (not sure if she researched this shit or just imagined it, but either way...). Yes sometimes she puts out trails that seem to be metaphorical and resonant -- dead mams and dads, benighted singing Irishmen, a "Dear John" letter rattled halfway out "your" brain. The whole enterprise comes to a head, I think, in the following exchange with a Brit government functionary toward the end:

"And no need to look at me like that. I follow the line which is the government line. We must think to the future, not the past."
"Fuck you."

Memorable, sneaky, and strange.
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Jun 14, 2014 K. Wills rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I was going to rate this book 4 stars, but a day after finishing it, it is still with me, and when I re-read the highlighted paragraphs on my Kindle, I found them heartbreaking. "Day," by A.L. Kennedy, is about an RAF airman who makes it through the war and in 1946 or thereabouts is working as an extra in a British film about prisoners of war - of which he was one, so of course his surroundings on the movie set come to haunt him a bit. There is a lot of internal dialogue in which you eventually ...more

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Oct 12, 2017 Kris McCracken rated it really liked it

Kennedy has taken a rather experimental approach with both the structure and narrative voice in this novel. Essentially and exercise in an exploration of what trauma does to someone, it's a brave task and (for mine), a successful one.

That said, it can get downright tricky at times, with a narrative voice that switches from the present to the past (told in the present tense), shooting further to the past (told in the past tense, then switching to the present tense). Then you flash to the mid-futu ...more

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Sep 28, 2017 Kate Bullock rated it really liked it

I've read this book twice. It is unclear to start with what's going on, I found, but the writing is completely engaging. It is a very unusual book, being told from the viewpoint of a member of Alfred day, a tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber. He finds comradeship in his crew and the intense life they lead during WW2 is compelling.
This synopsis wouldn't generally sell a book to me but the story is told with such insight and empathy that I recommend it wholeheartedly.

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May 22, 2019 Jamie Rawlings rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Very similar to Slaughterhouse 5: a-linear narrative which jumps forwards and back in time colouring in the life of Alfred Day. Involved in a fire-bombing, P.o.W. etc. Gives an insight into the life of a Lancaster tale gunner, the reverence towards the crew and machine, the challenges of losing it in civilian life. Challenges the general nostalgic memory of WW2

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Jul 24, 2018 Eva Kristin rated it it was amazing

Oh wow. This was a painful read. Kennedy makes the Second World War come vividly alive through tail-gunner Alfred Day. Her language and the way she tells his story is exceptionally original and beautiful. It’s been a long while since i enjoyed a challenging read as much as this.

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Jun 06, 2019 Sarah rated it really liked it

An extraordinarily affecting story. It would be five stars but for my lack of britishness. I just didn't connect with some of the vernacular and it made it a bit difficult at times. What is amazing is how emotional it still was only understanding 85 percent of the text.

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Sep 23, 2018 Paul Mirek rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, black-humor, war, metafiction, existentialism

book club selection (mine). review tk

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Dec 12, 2017 Priscilla rated it did not like it · review of another edition

DNF
I just can't with this book...

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Apr 26, 2009 Matthijs rated it liked it

The story is non existent, but not in a bad way, but more in a train of thought way, where the reader is convinced of the fact that life itself is more or less a story and doesn't need to be spiced up with strange occurrences or intrigue between lovers or antagonists. Kennedy opts for the day to day life of a tail-gunner of a Lancaster bomber and many of the events occurring in the book are logical for the main-character because of the style of writing explained above.

The life of this Sergeant The story is non existent, but not in a bad way, but more in a train of thought way, where the reader is convinced of the fact that life itself is more or less a story and doesn't need to be spiced up with strange occurrences or intrigue between lovers or antagonists. Kennedy opts for the day to day life of a tail-gunner of a Lancaster bomber and many of the events occurring in the book are logical for the main-character because of the style of writing explained above.

The life of this Sergeant Alfred Day is in fact a page turner once you start reading, his crew, his love interest and the impact of war on men on a very micro-emotional level is a change in the 'regular' war novels that get sold by the million. In a way, it's close to Sebastian Faulks' 'Birdsong', in that it doesn't really tell about the war, but uses this as a crisis that could take place any time, anywhere.

In the end, Day is amusing as a story on comradeship and the development of the individual through his rough and unpleasant youth. But although all these areas are briefly touched upon, it's done in such a brief way that one never fully gets to know and understand sergeant Alfred Day. To many pieces of string are kept dangling, and although you are aching to know what was the rest of the sweater, you'll never know.

The innovative way in which the book is written, in the third person by the protagonist, gives the idea of the voice in his head, or angel on his shoulder, carefully contemplating all aspects of his day to day life. But this only works in some moments, mostly when the main character is feeling affection for his comrades or lover, but never as an introspective into his own ego. Again, this causes a rift between the reader and Alfred Day, where this style of writing may have had the potential of sitting on the shoulder next to the angel.

The book has won the Costa book award in 2007, and in the same manner as predicting the Oscar and BAFTA winners, it's probably mostly the combination of subject matter, type of writer (A.L. Kennedy was born in 1965 and writes as a woman on male camaraderie, successfully if I may add) and the original (yet accessible) style in which it is written, that clinched the prize. I had to pull myself through the last 100 pages, and wouldn't recommend it to any of my friends. ...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Robyn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I picked up this book at a B&B in the Bourdeaux region of France two years ago. I am guessing that this book has not been published in the U.S., as I see I am the only review and this book won the prestigious Costa Award in Great Britain. It's too bad U.S publishers don't pick up a more diverse group of authors.

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Feb 13, 2010 Roderick Hart rated it really liked it

This novel is based on the life of Alfred Day, a tail-gunner in a Lancaster Bomber during World War 11. Does she succeed in portraying the experience of being a tail-gunner in a Lancaster Bomber? I haven’t the faintest idea, and neither does the author. So for those parts of the book where bombing runs are described she is relying on research and the reader must either take her work on trust or beat a path to the Imperial War Museum.

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Apr 13, 2016 Miriam rated it it was ok

I read this book for a uni course on contemporary Scottish literature, and that is the only reason I finished it.
The first fifty pages or so were incredibly hard work to slog through, and with the past flowing into the present, random italicization of some thoughts, and shifts back and forth to the second perspective, the author doesn't really seem to want the reader to have a good time reading her book.
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Feb 15, 2011 Holly rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-reads

I must have been especially sleepy while reading the first 21 pages, because I didn't have my bearings at all. When it dawned on me where/when the story was taking place (on a postwar film set), I promptly halted and went back to begin again.

I liked this note on re-reading Sherlock Holmes stories by necessity due to shortages of reading material: The cases had blended together, but that was fine, because being unsure of what ended up where meant the stories could stand a few readings, twisting ...more

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May 17, 2009 Leslie rated it liked it

Shelves: flying, wwii

I had mixed feelings about this book, and I think it comes down to the issue of voice. The mannered, manic, fluid POV really captured the fragmented psyche of someone (Alfie Day) who has endured unimaginable trauma (both in his family life and during his stint as an RAF gunner), but despite its inventive rhythms and fractures, the way the prose mimics a broken mind's machinery, I felt it paradoxically kept me from understanding him. Every time I picked up the book, it felt like work, like I had ...more

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Nov 06, 2009 Jeanette rated it did not like it

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After struggling with Kennedy's "Day" for a week, I decided to check reviews in an attempt to discover what I was missing in this novel. I knew that the style of the novel was one of the problems if not the problem I was having with the novel. The first review compared Kennedy's writing to Dostoevsky's, dark characters struggling in their dark world. Another review pointed out that "Day" is written in the second person point-of-view which few authors use in writing novels. I think the second per ...more

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Feb 05, 2009 Bookmarks Magazine added it · review of another edition

Named twice as one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, A. L. Kennedy plumbs the depths of darkness. In her ninth book of fiction, Paradise (HHHJ July/Aug 2005), she explored alcoholism. Day, a psychologically complex novel that examines the true costs of war, combines war, romance, and history. By delving deep inside Alfred's psyche, Kennedy offers an immediate, surreal portrait of one man's disintegration. Critics agree that Kennedy's vivid depictions of war are the most compelling, origi

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Dec 16, 2011 Carolyn rated it it was amazing

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A war veteran finds himself acting as an extra in a film about the war…and finally finds himself back in a place he understands. A place where he can finally come to terms with his war experiences, his regrets, his hopes…

What an amazing book. Just as Kennedy’s last novel “Paradise” took me so much into the mind of the alcoholic main character that I could practically taste the alcohol on my tongue, this book brings you into a completely different world, yet just as fully. Alfred’s experiences in ...more

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Mar 27, 2015 Carla Stafford rated it really liked it

This is my second read by A.L. Kennedy. She has an incredible voice. In spite of the fact that I have decided that I don't love the cryptic nature of the modern short story, I quite liked the style that Indelible Acts was laden with-DAY was no different in this respect. I am going to admit that for the first thirty or so pages, I was not completely certain that I understood what was going on. I may have (allegedly) googled a plot summary to make sure that I was on the right track...*Shwew!*

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Alison Louise Kennedy is a Scottish writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is known for a characteristically dark tone, a blending of realism and fantasy, and for her serious approach to her work. She occasionally contributes columns and reviews to UK and European newspapers including the fictional diary of her pet parrot named Charlie.