About the Author

Phil Harrison's first feature film, The Good Man, was released in 2014. His earlier short, Even Gods, won the short film award at the Belfast, Galway and Cork Film Festivals in 2011, and was shortlisted for the best short script at the 2012 Irish Screenwriting Awards. He lives in Belfast. The First Day is his debut novel.

Reviews

Terrific, it is expanding and expanding all the time, like its own model universe - I just think it is pretty marvellousSet in a defamiliarised Belfast, The First Day is an auspicious debut - crisp, spare, lean and compellingWritten with a burning intensity, this is a powerful novel about marriage, passion, anger and guilt - Daily MailGripping . . . This is a truly excellent novel, on all counts. The First Day is as well-written as any Irish novel I've read, with tight, dispassionate and superbly controlled prose - Belfast Telegraph