There’s warmth and depth in Hunter’s well-wrought prose. The characters stay with you in the best way

A radiant, absorbing novel, intensely alive to the beauty and mystery of the everyday. Megan Hunter has written a thoughtful, sensual novel that, like the work of Graham Swift, shows us how the world can change in a moment and how our daily lives are run through with both the ordinary and the extraordinary.

Think One Day written by (and starring) Virginia Woolf . . . This is a lyrical and captivating book, dropping decade by decade into a single day in the life of the brilliant, headstrong Ivy

Days of Light is sublime. Wielding tremendous emotional power, it is a novel that is both raw and reverent, attuned to the intricacies of loss, desire, hope and how to be in the world.

Megan Hunter writes with such delicacy about how a single moment can shape and echo through a life. Her sentences are sensory events, open to every texture and shadow. A beautiful book.

Both transcendent and stylish. A classy gem of a novel steeped in rapturous feeling and the cumulative awe and pain of a life deeply lived.

Days of Light is elegant and piercing: the story of a life in six days, with all the epicness and intimacy that a premise like that holds. Hunter depicts Ivy's longing and anguish with painterly precision.

Days of Light is a jewel of a novel. Brimming with heart and compassion, a whole life shines through its pages. I am in awe of Megan Hunter's profound grasp of human nature, as she carries us through grief and desire, hope and forgiveness.

Extraordinary. Beautiful, line by line, moving and absolutely transporting.

Intense, emotionally precise and deeply affecting . . . Hunter’s fidelity to ordinary experience, to the richness and pleasures of everyday life, to the texture of memory and desire, make for compelling, revelatory prose. Empathy informs all of Hunter’s novels and Days of Light is further proof of her great capacity for clarity and intelligence about our innermost selves.

A glittering marvel of a novel, tender, beautiful, and deeply moving.

Megan Hunter is a writer of liquid, incandescent prose. Days of Light is a singular novel about art and loss, love and violence, God and mystery . . . her best book yet

A radiant meditation on time and transformation. Days of Light is a work of rare sensitivity that speaks to the heart of what it means to love, lose and persevere. A stunning, luminous read.

What Megan Hunter does in time and space within the confines of this book is amazing. Days of Light has that quality that all Megan’s books have, restrained but with so much momentum, an exacting turn of phrase and the ability to make the hair on your arms stand up through beauty and also something much darker.

Wonderful, luminous . . . the language is radiant . . . it channels Woolf and Mansfield and feels completely fresh

Beautiful . . . an intricate narrative web . . . readers will be rapt.

'Magnificent . . . [a] beautifully written novel, that, rare in contemporary fiction, evokes a deep sense of the numinous

Affecting

Radiant