Bright Day - Plot Introduction

Plot Introduction

In 1946, an English screenwriter, Gregory Dawson, goes to a seaside hotel in Cornwall in order to finish a screenplay. An accidental meeting with two people from his distant past prompts him to explore his memories of his youth in Bruddersford (a fictional town conflating Bradford and Huddersfield) between October 1912 and June 1914.

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