The End of the Day

'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...

About the author

Bill Clegg is the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. His first novel, Did You Ever Have a Family, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Summary

'A writer with a profound comprehension of emotional destruction, loss and redemption' Sunday TimesA retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years.

Report

Quietly devastating... A finely-wrought masterpiece... Francesca Carington Sunday Telegraph *Novel of the Week*

Product details

• Authors: Bill Clegg, Clegg Bill
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.10.2021
• EAN: 9781784701062
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-106-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Hawaii, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Friendship, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Social issues, Hawaii / Hawai?i (State of)