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   A Day for Waving is the story of one woman’s journey. Lucy has had a long and fruitful life. On the final day she remains awake all night waiting for daylight to come and during this time reflects on her life from childhood. It is a journey from darkness into light.
    On one level it is a story of family life in ten scenes covering a period of about seventy years in the 20^th century. We see how the family develops and changes with all its triumphs and tragedies. Her father was a liberal Protestant Minister, her mother a talented musician. Her brother was the black sheep and her husband, Cain, the son of a Rationalist.
    The book also concerns itself with certain philosophical issues. In her youth Lucy rejects her Christian upbringing and becomes a Rationalist. Cain, on the other hand, undertakes the reverse process. In her musings Lucy presents her opinions on life, death and religion. There are issues which concern everyone from time to time however there is no attempt to preach, nor any certain resolution.

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Critique by Cathy Gladstone

 In his book, 'A Day for Waving,' Brian E Turner writes a philosophical story about human beliefs as seen through a dying woman. He builds his story around the premise: "It's not what you believe: It's what you are that counts." This book, listed as fiction, has layers within layers to help the reader discover a new path for himself. Brian's style is friendly and chatty, without lecturing, but filled with important incidents for the more provocative reader to question.

 Reviewed by Jack Goodstein in The Compulsive Reader

 It took John Milton thousands of verses of iambic pentameter and hundreds of pages, a work of monumental proportions, to justify the ways of God to man. Brian Turner ’s “A Day For Waving” takes upon itself almost the same task, and he needs fewer than one hundred and thirty pages to do the job (if in fact the job can be done). “A Day For Waving” is a little book, a novella, filled to overflowing with big themes, big ideas, yet it never gives the reader the sense that it is overwhelmed by its load.

TITLE               A Day For Waving
AUTHOR         Brian E Turner
PUBLISHED    2004
CATEGORY    Novel
FORMAT         Paperback
EXTENT           A5, 129 pages
ISBN                1-86942- 050-0
PRICE              NZ  $25