Hypnotic tale of a prisoner of war’s psychological battles

DAY. By AL Kennedy. Jonathan Cape, €24.95

One problem with wars is that they are both a public and a private affair - or to put it another way, every individual has their personal war running parallel to the great public events.

This means that, while an official date can be set for when the public face of a war is declared to be over, for each individual their own private sense of ...