A.L. Kennedy - winner of 2007 Costa Book of the Year Award

A.L. Kennedy, winner of the 2007 Costa Novel Award, talks about her book, Day.

This short film, commissioned by Costa Coffee, was shown at the Costa book of the Year awards ceremony in London on February 2008. The film made by Charles Turley at CTA Limited.

About the book:

Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Now, in 1949, Alfred is winding back time to see where he lost himself. He has taken the role of an extra in a POW film. Shipped out to Germany and an ersatz camp, he picks his way through the clichés that will become all that's left of his war and begins to do what he's never dared - to remember. He is looking for some semblance of hope: trying to move forward by going back.

About the author:

A.L. Kennedy is a novelist and stand-up comedian. She has published four previous novels, two books of non-fiction, and three collections of short stories, most recently Indelible Acts. She also writes for the stage, radio, film and TV. She has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a number of prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. A.L. Kennedy lives in Glasgow and is currently an Associate Professor with the Warwick University Creative Writing Programme.

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