''Daylight on Saturday'' is a 1943

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by the British writer

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. It follows the various employees of an

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during the

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. The title was a reference to the fact that workers only see daylight at the weekends.Klein p.132

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* Klein, Holger. ''J.B. Priestley's Fiction''. Peter Lang, 2002. 1943 British novels Novels by J. B. Priestley Heinemann (publisher) books {{1940s-novel-stub