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What the critics say

A stunning read
- Daily Mail

Day confirms, if confirmation were needed, that Kennedy is a singular, superlative author. I hope that the judges of this year's Man Booker prize pay particular attention to it
- Scotland on Sunday

Kennedy does bleak the way the Russians do epic; unremittingly, awesomely and undershot with redeeming humour
- Sunday Times

Once again, Kennedy brilliantly interweaves over-wrought internal dialogue with external outrageous acts. The unfolding tenderness of nature and of amity blend superbly with the casualness of daily horror
- Independent on Sunday

Day is more than a novel, it is an investigations into the difficulties of being alive
- Irish Times

A woman born in 1965 who writes a novel about RAF bomber crew in the second world war needs a gift for bringing history alive, as well as guts and true bravado. AL Kennedy has them all ... her narrative gift is great
- Guardian

Day is a very good novel. It is largely about love, as most novels are, but the author's skill with language... makes the average cliché unique... Historical details become flesh and funny in her hand
- Independent

AL Kennedy has built a reputation as one of the fiercest, most bloody minded and thrilling British writers and her new novel more than backs that up... Day is an utterly engrossing read
- Metro

Day is a remarkable performance
- Sunday Telegraph

This is a remarkably clean lined book, of highly literary construction, that still feels huge and wide ranging. Day is a forceful, wholly achieved piece of work by a writer of enormous power. It ought to win all the prizes going
- Daily Telegraph

Well deserved to win the 2007 Costa book of the year award...sophisticated texture...Ms Kennedy manages to make every battle truism fresh
- Economist