Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the
Orange Prize and the Booker Prize 'Brilliantly done . . . the
period detail never overwhelms the simple, passionate human story.
It's a tour-de-force of hints, clues and dropped threads' Suzi
Feay, Independent on Sunday 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. This is the story of
four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn
with absolute truth and intimacy. 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. Their
lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War
leads to strange alliances . . . Tender, tragic and beautifully
poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic
and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up
subtle surprises and twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A
towering achievement.
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