In Daylight

Greg Dawson went to Cornwall to finish a screenplay, but instead of work he encountered his own past. Martin Cheeverel came to the premiere in an old theatre—and saw the ghost of an actress who had died a hundred years earlier.

«При блеске дня» is a novel about how a creative crisis and a chance encounter turn into a meeting with one’s former self. To keep on schedule, the successful British screenwriter Greg Dawson, the novel’s protagonist, heads to a remote hotel on the coast of Cornwall to work on a new project.

A chance meeting with an elderly married couple he knew in his youth makes Greg recall his optimistic pre-war past and wonder when his life took a wrong turn.

Successful playwright Martin Cheeverel is going through a creative crisis and decides to stop writing. However, in an old theatre in the north of England, where Martin has come for the premiere of his last play, he suddenly witnesses a vision of a tragedy that took place within the building a century earlier—with a young actress named Jenny Willers.