Day for Night

Short Description

Set in London against a backdrop of growing authoritarianism and anxiety, a story of cinema and desire, the mysteries of marriage and creativity, and the often-violent returns and reversals of history.

Sales and Market Bullets

Jean McNeil’s work has been shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award for Fiction, the Journey Prize, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation literary awards and the Journey Prize, and has twice won the Prism International competitions for short fiction and non-fiction.
“Jean McNeil’s latest is a completely absorbing, eminently readable — to the point of being almost unputdownable — complex, cleverly crafted work, principally about loyalty: what we owe to our country, our relatives, those we love, and those who simply cross our path. You won’t read many better novels this year.” — Daily Mail on The Dhow House
“Stunningly written.” — New York Times on Ice Diaries
Day for Night examines desire, sexual orientation, and power imbalances in relationships and will appeal to readers of Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries and Amor Towles’s A Gentleman in Moscow.
Book club questions will be available.

Audience

Readers of historical and political fiction
Fans of books with complex female protagonists, by authors like Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins