Bright Day
A British Literature, Fiction, European Literature book. A young orphan is sent to live with a distant Aunt and Uncle in...
J.B. Priestley was especially fond of this novel of his: "I am not one for favourites," he wrote in the introduction to the Everyman edition, "and I have always been irritated by questions about my favourite this, that and the other. But if I have a favourite among my novels, it is Bright Day, which I wrote towards the end of the war."The novel was written towards the end of World War II. JBP disclaimed any autobiographical roots in the work, but it is nontheless resonent with his early youth and coincided with JBP's recoil from the commercial film world. Bright Day was the only serious novel that he wrote in the first person.Gregory Dawson, the novel's hero, is a middle-aged film script writer who goes off to Cornwall to complete a script. At his hotel he spots Lord and Lady Harndean, and realizes that they are the Malcolm and Eleanor Nixey he knew...
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This is a beautiful book. Just after the second world war a middle aged man, now a scriptwriter and producer looks back at his life before the first world war when as a young man he worked in the wool trade. There is feeling of impending doom throughout his reminiscences leading eventually to a tragedy and we see how this has affected... My favourite of his so far. Autobiographical it may be but it could so easily apply to us all. A young orphan is sent to live with a distant Aunt and Uncle in the Yorkshire countryside before WWI. Gregory is shy, reserved and lonely. He is given a job in a wool factory and begins to make friends and to publish some writings. The Alington family befriends him and invites him into their inner circle of family, food and music. The...
