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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Set on the same day - 5 April - over three successive years - 2019 to 2021. In 2019, Isabel loves her work and hates the job. Her husband Dan once had fleeting success as a musician, but is now a house husband. Her brother Robbie is moving out of her brownstone’s attic because her children Nathan and Violet need the space, and to get over the nastiness of his last boyfriend. 2020 shows how the pandemic has affected them, and 2021 shows the aftermath. An exquisite novel about family, love, limitations and acceptance. Lindy
Michael Cunningham is the author of six novels, including ‘A Home at the End of the World’, ‘Flesh and Blood’, ‘The Hours’ (winner of the PEN / Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize), ‘Specimen Days’ and ‘By Nightfall’, as well as ‘Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown’. His most recent novel is ‘The Snow Queen’. He lives in New York.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Set on the same day - 5 April - over three successive years - 2019 to 2021. In 2019, Isabel loves her work and hates the job. Her husband Dan once had fleeting success as a musician, but is now a house husband. Her brother Robbie is moving out of her brownstone’s attic because her children Nathan and Violet need the space, and to get over the nastiness of his last boyfriend. 2020 shows how the pandemic has affected them, and 2021 shows the aftermath. An exquisite novel about family, love, limitations and acceptance. Lindy
‘In Day, Michael Cunningham displays his great gift for creating memorable characters, for noticing the world in all its oddness and beauty, for writing about love and loss in tones that are both unsparing and tender. In this book, he also sharply and brilliantly captures contemporary New York’ Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn ‘Day is a novel about the collisions of love within our days. Michael Cunningham crafts a glorious sentence and at the same time he tells an achingly compelling story that speaks precisely to the times we live in. And it all flows so damn gorgeously that at times you just want to suspend the sacred day itself and hold it close, never let it, or the characters, go. A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon ‘Cunningham, the perennial master of rendering the quotidian with a profound and deeply considered eye for human frailty, returns with a book that exemplifies the hallmarks of his style: lush, erudite, voracious in its seeking, and, like a true poet, remakes the world in his descriptions, freshened with care, compassion, and tinged with radiant heat of grief. What a quietly stunning achievement’ Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous ‘Cunningham is one of our great American writers, and here is another masterpiece. Day shows all his extraordinary gifts of epic sweep and intricate detail, lyrical language and plain hard words, memory and imagination, love and hope and loss. It does what only great books can do. Read it and be changed’ Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less ‘Few writers capture the crazy contradictions of modern life with as much clarity and wisdom as Michael Cunningham.Dayglows with beauty and energy; its characters slip off the page and into your life’ Tash Aw, author of We, the Survivors
