"... Day by AL Kennedy, read by Dan Stevens
The strength of bonds formed in wartime comes across forcibly in Dan Stevens's virtuoso reading of AL Kennedy's novel about Alfred Day, a tailgunner from the Black Country in a Lancaster bomber during the Second World War.
Alfred's story emerges in fits and starts: the mixed-up son of an alcoholic father, he finds a surrogate family among fellow crewmen and falls in love with a married woman. Stevens powers through a complex narrative, changing gear from first to third person and, unusually, to second person (addressing Alfred as "you")..."
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