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Megan Hunter: Days of Light

Love love love this book, maybe even more or at least as much as I loved The Safekeep, too, which I thought to be one of the surprisingly good ones. These two, almost a pair, are the ones that leave a mark in your mind even though I think historical fiction is no my favourite genre at all. But these, these two have characters I loved, language and rhythm (Days of Light) and story (both) and a s a bonus oh so trendy a queer love story.

And to be clear, the main reason why I loved this book, this Days of Light  is that Days of Light has the rythm in the language, the text flows as a poem (and somehow I feel Virginia Woolf just around the corner).

It is 1938, a 19-year old Ivy spending a day with her family and the most horrible happens. Ivy´s beloved brother, Joseph, a brilliant youn man, just fresh and in love, with Frances, is the starting point and the 1930´s is so vividly written one could smell and taste it all. The whole of book is written as a set over six separate days that span six decades.

Also, I read after reading this book, that it has gotten it´s inspiration from the actual factual lives, stories and incidents which I will explore more but only knowing now that it has a lot to do with the Bloomsbury group and the great minds in that group and yes, my feeling of Virginia Woolf lived to be true. 

 
Here, in this book there is all that I love in a good fictional story, in a story that is a character led. Sometimes (often) I love book that has almost no movement, no visible movement, but this has it, and it goes well with the language, the text because this one is so brilliantly written. 

So, there is a story, a full set if interesting characters, there is history, a queer love, a mature love, a nun, questions of faith, and there is a lifelong question what happened that day, that day when Ivy's brother vanished in the river. 

I had no idea this reading experience would be this full, this fulfilling when I started it and the ending of the book left a permanent mark on me, on my memory, I am sure of that (I hope that) and I hope it also has a positive vibe to my own writing, a push to have the courage to be me, even in writing, just go as I feel fit and right. 

so, to sum up, The story, the people in it, the storyline travelling in periods, rounding structure, was pleasant, easy, appealing devided in days and questions of love, family, marriage and faith got me thinking and enjoying the story even more but the most brilliant aspect of this book, as previously mentioned, is its language, the poetic way of putting words, using English language so superbly that is was an absolute pleasure to read. The rhythm of the sentences reminds (me) of Virginia Woolf of the Mrs Dalloway The Waves To the lighthouse
Such a great book.