The Light of Day: A Novel (23 page)
GRAHAM SWIFT
The Light of Day
Graham Swift was born in 1949 in London, where he still lives and works. He is the author of six novels:
The Sweet-
Shop Owner; Shuttlecock, which received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize;
Waterland
, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Award, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour;
Out of This World
;
Ever After
, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger; and
Last Orders
, which was awarded the Booker Prize. He is also the author of
Learning to Swim
, a collection of short stories. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
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ALSO BY GRAHAM SWIFT
The Sweet-Shop Owner
Shuttlecock
Waterland
Out of This World
Ever After
Learning to Swim
Last Orders
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, AUGUST 2004
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Swift, Graham, 1949–
The light of day / Graham Swift.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
1. Private Investigators—England—London—Fiction.
2. Women prisoners—Fiction.
3. London (England)—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6069.W47 L54 2003b
823’.914—dc22
2003101421
eISBN: 978-0-307-42892-9
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