That Dark Remembered Day, by Tom Vowler
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That Dark Remembered Day, by Tom Vowler
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LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN NOT THE BOOKER PRIZEOne family, one town, devastated by one tragic event. Can you ever know what those closest to you are really capable of?When Stephen gets a phone call to say his mother isn't well, he knows he must go to her straight away. But he dreads going back there. He has never been able to understand why his mother chose to stay in the town he grew up in, after everything that happened. One day's tragic events years before had left no one living there untouched.Stephen's own dark memories are still poisoning his life, as well as his marriage. Perhaps now is the time to go back and confront the place and the people of his shattered childhood. But will he ever be able to understand the crime that punctured their lives so brutally? How can a community move on from such a terrible legacy?
That Dark Remembered Day, by Tom Vowler- Amazon Sales Rank: #4229208 in Books
- Brand: Vowler, Tom
- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Released on: 2015-09-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.75" h x .75" w x 5.00" l, .49 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Review Tom Vowler is an author to watch out for; a writer, if there is any justice in the world, who is going places―www.crimesquad.comThat Dark Remembered Day is a fine achievement. One vividly imagined and intensely realised scene follows another, each one ratcheting the tension, as we are led back through time, and deeper into Stephen's memories . . . Makes you want to elbow the stranger next to you on the train and say: "Read that. Just read it."That Dark Remembered Day is an intense and contemplative novel . . . beautifully written―www.andthenireadabook.blogspot.co.ukThat Dark Remembered Day is one of the most absorbing novels I've read in years. Brilliantly crafted, impeccably researched . . . Written in Vowler's beautifully cadenced, poised style, I was, appropriately, captivatedA compelling story about damage done, a touching exploration of the possibility of forgiveness and recoveryA rewarding, if disturbing read―www.literatureworks.org.ukCompelling and beautifully constructed - it deserves to be widely readIntelligent, absorbing and beautifully doneThoughtful and engrossing . . . Much of the fiction peddled as "psychological suspense" weights heavy on the suspense, with the psychology aspect feeling flimsy at best. Not so here―www.thelist.co.uk
About the Author Tom Vowler is an award-winning writer living in South-West England. His short story collection THE METHOD won the inaugural Scott Prize in 2010 and the Edge Hill Readers' Prize in 2011. This is his second novel.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. "Dulce et decorum est..." By FictionFan When Stephen Briggs returns to the town of his childhood to visit his elderly mother, he is forced to remember the events of the day that shattered his life and family, and caused aftershocks that are still rippling through this small community. Back in 1982, his parents had bought Highfield, a dilapidated old house overlooking the town. Richard would leave his career in the Army and together he and Mary would convert the barns into holiday cottages for rent and then live as much as they could off the land. But these plans changed when a sudden fight over a tiny group of islands on the other side of the world became Britain's last imperial war. Richard found himself en route for the Falklands, a small war but a brutal one - and one which affected profoundly many of the men who served.This book, like Vowler's first, What Lies Within, is being marketed as some kind of psychological thriller, but this is not only misleading, it actually does the book an injustice, as I felt it did to the earlier book too. Although there is a crime at the heart of it, in fact the book is about the trauma of war and how the effects of the psychological damage done to active participants can ripple out through society and down through generations. The book is told from several viewpoints, though each in the third person, and in two timelines. The present day section tells of Stephen's return to the town, and the memories it awakens in him that he has tried unsuccessfully to suppress. The other timeline takes us back to the early '80s where the viewpoint alternates between Stephen as a child, and each of his parents.Vowler's strength is in his characterisation and again I was struck in this book by how convincingly he can write about his female characters. Although the story is centred around Stephen and his father to some extent, Mary is the character who rang truest for me, both as a young wife and mother in the earlier strand, and now as an ageing and somewhat isolated woman in the present. She's not a heroine - just an ordinary woman struggling to cope with a life that hasn't turned out the way she planned.Both the main male characters are very well-drawn too though, and the picture of the young soldiers going off to an unexpected war is very convincing. At that time, peace had been the norm for a longish time, and people had almost stopped thinking of the Army as a fighting machine - apart from occasional tours of duty in Ireland, the Army was a good `career' where young men (primarily) could learn skills that would earn them a good job in civvy street. The Falklands War changed that perception and Vowler shows how this strange but significant little episode affected soldiers and civilians alike.The book starts off as quite slow-moving and it took me a while to feel involved. Partly this is because in the first section, with Stephen as an adult, it is clear that he knows what happened on that day in the past, and keeping that knowledge from the reader feels contrived and creates an emotional distance. However as the story slowly unfolds, both timelines grow in emotional depth and, despite having been heavily signalled from an early point in the book, the ending is both powerful and moving. Another excellent book from Vowler, confirming my view from his first book that he's an author to keep an eye on. Highly recommended.NB This book was provided for review by the publisher, Headline.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Beautifully written and emotional. By Liz Barnsley Thank you to the author and publisher for the review copy via netgalley.A son returns to the small town where he grew up, where his mother still lives and where a terrible event in his childhood changed the lives of almost every person living there. As the story unfolds through the eyes of the son, the mother and finally, the father, the reader experiences the taut build up to one day's tragic unravelling, and the shock waves that echoed through a once happy family and close-knit community. Will they ever be able to exorcise the damage of that day or do some wounds run too deep?So I read Tom Vowler's debut novel "What Lies Within" and thought it was stunning for all the right reasons and was very much looking forward to another tale from this author.If anything "That Dark Remembered Day" was an even better read for me - one of the types of books that I love, where characters are key and past events influence present times, a psychological insight if you like into the things that make us who we are. These types of stories are hard to pull off in a way that will make you remember them, especially when you read as much as I do, but stay with me this one will.Stephen returns to his hometown reluctantly, to check on his mother who is unwell. When he was growing up there, tragedy hit the inhabitants and the shockwaves from this are still present in a lot of ways now, years later. Right at the heart of the matter, Stephen has his own issues to deal with. As the story unfolds, told in flashback and present time, a picture emerges of the repercussions and heartache caused.The novel encompasses some real life events that I remember quite well - this added to the ambience of the whole for me...a teenager at the time, watching the news but not really understanding the full impact of it. Mr Vowler mixes up the fact and fiction beautifully - giving an added impact to the background of the story.Overall a beautifully written character driven tale and one that definitely puts Tom Vowler firmly on my must read author list.Happy Reading Folks!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Two Stars By hazel hewitt Just ok.
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