Day

Author: Kennedy, A. L.

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 7 February 2008 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

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.

Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film that echoes his real experience, Day begins to recall what he would rather forget...