The End of the Day
Published on 1. October 2020
320 pages
978-1-4735-2204-6 (ISBN)
Description
'A writer with a profound comprehension of emotional destruction, loss and redemption' Sunday Times
A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years.
A man arrives at a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hotel to introduce his estranged father to his newborn daughter and finds him collapsed on the floor of the lobby.
A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past.
These seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century-old secrets begin to surface over the course of one fateful day...
A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years.
A man arrives at a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hotel to introduce his estranged father to his newborn daughter and finds him collapsed on the floor of the lobby.
A sixty-seven-year-old taxi driver in Kauai receives a phone call from the mainland that jars her back to a traumatic past.
These seemingly disconnected lives come together as half-century-old secrets begin to surface over the course of one fateful day...
Reviews / Votes
Quietly devastating... A finely-wrought masterpiece... -- Francesca Carington * Sunday Telegraph *Novel of the Week* * Reading The End of the Day is like studying a stained-glass window up close...a large, beautiful, mysterious work of art. -- David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife A writer with a profound comprehension of emotional destruction, loss and redemption... -- Francesca Angelini * Sunday Times * Fabulously rich and compelling. * Daily Mail * [A] glorious novel. -- Helen Macdonald * Guardian * Written in lyrical, beautiful prose that makes even waking up seem like a poetic event, The End of the Day makes sense of the events of a single day in a compelling work of fiction. * GMA.com * A moody, atmospheric domestic drama with a mystery novel somewhere in its family tree. * Kirkus Reviews * Clegg delivers a thoughtful, well-observed story... The splendid prose and orchestrated maneuvering will keep readers turning the pages and send them back to the beginning, to read it all over again. * Publishers Weekly * A declining heiress returns home for the first time in decades, but can't remember why. Her former maid's daughter runs a taxi company in Hawaii. Her aunt is left with a baby whose parents have vanished. Leave it to Clegg to brilliantly bind these threads. * Entertainment Weekly * Clegg tantalisingly reveals the clues that connect the characters to each other. A gripping read. * Psychologies *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Random House (Digital)
File size
2,01 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4735-2204-6 (9781473522046)
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Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. He has written for the New York Times, Esquire, New York magazine, the Guardian and Harper's Bazaar.
