The Night Watch
New York : Riverhead Books, 2006.
Format: Book
Description: 450 pages ; 24 cm
"[A] wonderful novel…Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character."-- Chicago Tribune
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners--three women and a young man with a past--whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event.
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners--three women and a young man with a past--whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in tragedy, stunning surprise and exquisite turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
159448905X