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Swift, GrahamTaylor, AndrewThe Light of DaySarah is in prison. Every fortnight she isvisited by George, the private eye sheemployed to observe the final stageof her husband’s affair. The visits, andthe days between, lead George backinto Sarah’s past and into events he canpicture only too well, while bringinghim ever closer to a time he can’t quiteimagine, when she will once againstep out into the clear light of day. Thisis a brilliant tale of love, murder andsuspense, from one of Britain’s finestwriters.The American BoyThomas Shield, a new master at a schooljust outside London, is tutor to a youngAmerican boy and the boy’s sensitive bestfriend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant’sbeautiful, unhappy mother, Thomasbecomes caught up in her family’s twistedintrigues. Despite his efforts, Shield iscaught up in a deadly tangle of sex,money, murder and lies. What of thestrange American child at the heart ofthese macabre events, what is the secretof the boy named Edgar Allen Poe?76