“A radiant, absorbing novel, intensely alive to the beauty and mystery of the everyday."—Joanna Quinn From the author of The End We Start From, now a major film starring Jodie Comer, and taking inspiration from the influential artists and intellectuals of the Bloomsbury Group, Days of Light is a sweeping, sensual historical novel of art, desire, and faith set against the backdrop of a changing England Easter Sunday, 1938. Ivy is nineteen and ready for her life to finally begin. Her sprawling, bohemian family and their friends gather in the idyllic English countryside for lunch, arranging themselves around well-worn roles. They trade political views and artistic arguments as they impatiently await the arrival and first sight of Frances, the new beau of Ivy’s beloved older brother, Joseph. In this auspicious atmosphere of springtime, Ivy’s world feels on the cusp of something grand–but neither she nor those closest to her predicts how a single, enchanted evening and an unexpected tragedy will alter the rest of their lives. A radiant, philosophical, and intimate journey through time, Days of Light chronicles six pivotal days across six decades to tell the story of Ivy’s pursuit of answers—to the events of this fateful Easter Sunday and to the shifting desires of her own heart. Moving through the Second World War up to the close of the 20th century, Hunter captures the galvanic love and transformative moments that define a winding, beautiful life. Praise for Days of Light “Hunter writes with powerful specificity about sensation — the experience, bodily, of moving through the world.”— Clare McHugh, Washington Post “Reminiscent of Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen and Katherine Mansfield . . . Hunter demonstrates her versatility as a writer. Days of Light navigates hefty themes—class, queer love, the search for transcendence—with ease. Stippled with gorgeous images (a kiss “like a dusting of flour”, a moment “a thread caught on brambles”), this is a tale of female emancipation that would have made Woolf proud.” — Miriam Balaneseu, The Observer “ Days of Light is a tribute to those who wonder and receive no answers, to those who search their whole lives for a someone , just to find themselves. Hunter has captured something ethereal and haunting in Ivy and Joseph’s story, a sense of what-if that pervades even the hardest skeptics. This book is for everyone, for we are all victims and villains, we are all ephemeral infinities, we are all Ivys, in the end.”— Madeline Schultz, Chicago Review of Books “Think One Day written by (and starring) Virginia Woolf (she’s in the air this year). This is a lyrical and captivating book, dropping decade by decade into a single day in the life of the brilliant, headstrong Ivy.” — Alex Preston, The Guardian “Beautiful . . . Spinning an intricate narrative web, Hunter reveals how the characters’ actions have lasting consequences . . . Readers will be rapt.” — Publishers Weekly “Infused with Woolf’s spirit of convention-busting feminism.” — Christian House, Financial Times “Magnificent . . . Evokes a deep sense of the numinous.” — Michael Arditti, The Spectator “Vividly immersive.” — Clare Clark, The Guardian “Wonderful, luminous . . . the language is radiant . . . it channels Woolf and Mansfield and feels completely fresh.”— Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time “A glittering marvel of a novel, tender, beautiful, and deeply moving.” — Stephanie Bishop, author of The Anniversary “A radiant, absorbing novel, intensely alive to the beauty and mystery of the everyday, Days of Light describes one woman’s life through a series of six pivotal days. Each day is drawn with such tender care it’s as if we are experiencing Ivy’s life from the inside out, from youth through marriage and motherhood into old age, as she navigates her desire for others and her desire for meaning. 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.” — Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre “There’s warmth and depth in Hunter’s well-wrought prose. The characters stay with you in the best way.” — Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater “ 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.” — Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites “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. I’ve always been a fan of Hunter’s work, and this is her best book yet.” — Jamie Quatro, author of Two-Step Devil “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