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'An appropriately leisurely but learned exploration of the day of rest in all its quiet glories: engaging, digressive and full of things I didn't know.' Stuart Maconie

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'Daniel Gray is such a generous writer. He takes pleasure in the people and places he encounters and then shares it in charming prose. This book is his most delightful yet.' Peter Ross

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‘Daniel Gray’s glorious sentences light up Sunday’s stained-glass window so that it shines like a lighthouse across the rest of the week. Here are all the creative contours of the so-called Day of Rest.’ Ian McMillan

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'A very clever idea (which I rather wish had occurred to me) followed through with considerable panache.' Tom Fort

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'As light-hearted social history, it slips down as easily as the first pint of a Sunday lunchtime, and it is packed with pub quiz winning nuggets of information' Times Literary Supplement

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'This engaging and quirky piece of social history is the perfect read between a Sunday roast and a post-prandial snooze.' Country Life

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‘Delightfully written. Countless little gems of recognition and satisfaction, many of them very funny. A lovely little thing.’ Daily Telegraph

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'Engaging … Sprinkled with a digestible amount of social history and commentary.' Daily Mail

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‘Gray is a master of observing and amplifying the things we love … but wonder if anyone else even notices.’ The Times

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‘Gray writes like Lowry paints. Superb’ BBC Lancashire

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‘A damn good read.’ Val McDermid

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