From the author of _The End We Start From_, now a major film starring Jodie Comer, _Days of Light_ is a sweeping, gorgeous story for fans of _Mothering Sunday_ and _The Hours_. _She marvels at the way a single day can unravel everything, like ribbon pulled from a present._ Easter Sunday, 1938. Ivy is nineteen and ready for her life to finally begin. At Cressingdon, her sprawling, bohemian family and their friends gather for lunch and to await the arrival of a longed-for guest. Britain is on the cusp of war, but in the idyllic Sussex countryside anything feels possible. It is a single, enchanted afternoon that ends in tragedy and will change Ivy's life forever. Chronicling six pivotal days across six decades, _Days of Light_ moves through the Second World War and the twentieth century on a radiant journey through a life lived in pursuit of love and in search of an answer. 'THINK _ONE DAY_ WRITTEN BY (AND STARRING) VIRGINIA WOOLF . . . LYRICAL AND CAPTIVATING' -_The Observer_ 'RADIANT, ABSORBING, SENSUAL' - Joanna Quinn, author of _The Whalebone Theatre_ 'THE CHARACTERS STAY WITH YOU IN THE BEST WAY' - Sarah Moss, author of _Summerwater_ MEGAN HUNTER is a prize-winning novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Her first novel, _The End We Start From_ (2017), was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Books Are My Bag Awards, longlisted for the Aspen Words Prize, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Awards finalist and won the Foreword Reviews Editor's Choice Award. It was adapted into a major motion picture by Alice Birch, starring Jodie Comer and directed by Mahalia Belo. Her second novel, _The Harpy_ (2020), was Indie Book of the Month; she is currently adapting it for television with Red Planet Pictures. In 2024 her dramatic monologue _Salt of the Earth_ premiered at Venice Film Festival. Megan's other writing has appeared in the _White Review_, the _TLS,_ _Literary Hub, Vogue, Elle,_ BOMB, and elsewhere.