Bright Day

Greg Dawson goes to Cornwall to finish a script, but instead of getting down to focused work, he finds himself face to face with his past. Martin Cheeverell arrives at a premiere in an old theatre—and encounters the ghost of an actress who died a century ago.

“By the Light of Day” is a novel about how a creative dead end and a chance meeting turn into a conversation with the person you once were.

To make his deadline, the successful British screenwriter Greg Dawson—the hero of the novel “By the Light of Day”—heads to a secluded seaside hotel in Cornwall to complete a new project. An unexpected encounter with an elderly couple he knew in his youth brings Greg back to the pre-war years, full of hope, and makes him wonder at what point his life took a wrong turn.

Renowned playwright Martin Cheeverell is going through a crisis and decides to stop writing. But in the old theatre in the north of England where he goes for the premiere of his last play, Martin is suddenly confronted with the echo of a long-ago tragedy: a young actress, Jenny Wyllears, died within these walls one hundred years earlier.