Graham Swift

On a cold but dazzling November morning George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, prepares to visit Sarah, a prisoner and the woman he loves. As he goes about the business of the day he relives the catastrophic events of two years ago that have both bound them together and kept them apart. Making atmospheric use of its suburban setting and shot through with a plain man's unwitting poetry and rueful humour, The Light of Day is a powerful and moving tale of murder, redemption and of the discovery, for better or worse, of the hidden forces inside us.

In 1972, Robert Beech, First World War veteran, is killed by a car bomb. The event cuts short the career of his son Harry, a news photographer. Ten years later, Harry, now working in aerial photography, and his daughter Sophie, visiting an analyst in New York, remain scarred and divided by the event. Around their broken relationship builds a story that is acutely private yet sweepingly public, at the heart of which lies Harry’s lifelong dedication of the camera.

Paula Hook and her husband have a dramatic announcement to make to their sixteen year old twins which will change their lives for ever. They have been putting this off for years deciding to wait until theie sixteenth birthday.