Erica Carter, Chair of the judges of the Goldsmiths prize:

Good Day? is a novel in dialogue that works with repetition and rhythm like a piece of music by Philip Glass.

Formally inventive, it is also elegant, compelling, and slips down a treat.

A woman – the Writer – is writing a novel about Richard and Anna, a middle-aged professional couple, who face the biggest crisis of their twenty-five-year marriage when he admits to seeing prostitutes. When her husband – the Reader – returns home from work, they discuss what she has written that day. As Richard and Anna’s story progresses, the tension between the Writer and her husband increases as they are compelled to examine their own marriage. The boundary between fiction and fact dissolves until the fate of the Reader and Writer is in the hands of the characters they have created.

Gradually the differences between the characters in the novel on the one hand and the reader and the writer on the other appear to diminish to the point where we begin to wonder whether the reader, like Richard, pays for sex, and whether the writer, like her female protagonist, is coping with the situation by having several lovers.

Reviews (selection):

 https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2019/10/vesna-main-s-good-day-sharp-and-quick-witted-meta-fiction

https://www.litromagazine.com/literature/book-review-good-day-by-vesna-main/

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/reader-writer-relationship-vesna-main/

https://alifeinbooks.co.uk/2019/05/good-day-by-vesna-main-when-life-mirrors-fiction-or-not/

https://strangealliances.wordpress.com/2019/06/30/good-day-by-vesna-main-book-review/