6/29/2023 0 Comments The night watch book sarah waters![]() ![]() Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. This is the story of four Londoners, three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, 2006. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2006. Shortlisted for Audible's Listen of the Year, 2006. Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Book of the Year, 2007. ![]()
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