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- Paperback Jun 1, 2007 | 9781844082414 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
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Virago
- Paperback Jun 1, 2007 | 9781844082414 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Oct 8, 2024 | 9780349018522 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- e-Book Feb 3, 2011 | 9780748129331 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Feb 2, 2006 | 9781405502047 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
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Virago
- Paperback Jun 1, 2007 | 9781844082414 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Oct 8, 2024 | 9780349018522 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- e-Book Feb 3, 2011 | 9780748129331 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Feb 2, 2006 | 9781405502047 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback Jun 1, 2007 | 9781844082414 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Oct 8, 2024 | 9780349018522 | RRP $24.99 Pre-Order
- e-Book Feb 3, 2011 | 9780748129331 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Feb 2, 2006 | 9781405502047 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
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Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a stunning novel that marks a departure from the 19th century.
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.
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Praise for The Night Watch
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The Night Watch is a truthful, lovely book that needs no conjuring tricks to make you want to read it again - Philip Hensher, Observer
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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
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The Night Watch leaves you with the sense of having read something rich and complex pared down with consummate skill by a first-class storyteller into a series of deceptively simple tales of love. Which is a fancy way of saying that Sarah Waters's latest offering lingers on, long after the final page and its first, most fateful meeting - Melanie McGrath, Evening Standard
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Waters secret is her absolute control of the pace - each strand of the plot is paid out carefully at the same speed, no rushing, no favouritism. The characters are given equal weight and time, so that by the end of the first section you're equally gripped by all of them. It is in the second section that Waters really proves her genius with plot. We never return to the future, the drama of The Night Watch runs backwards into the war, then before. It is a measure of Waters' talent that this isn't frustrating and that the reader is quite happy to allow her to resolve all the tensions in character and plot in the past - Mary Wakefield, Sunday Telegraph
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....this outstandingly gifted novelist releases her imagination into her most compelling depiction yet - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
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Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters, who was born in Wales, has been described as 'one of the best storytellers alive today' (Matt Thorne, Independent), and there can be no doubt that readers and critics alike have been gripped by her extraordinary imagination. Sarah Waters' first novel, Tipping the Velvet, won a Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her next novel, Affinity, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award while Fingersmith and The Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The former also won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. The Little Stranger was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009 and The Paying Guests was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize in 2015. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have all been adapted for television, The Little Stranger was adapted as a film by Lenny Abrahamson, and Fingersmith inspired Park Chan-wook's film, The Handmaiden. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year five times: by the British Book Awards, The Booksellers' Association, Waterstone's Booksellers, Glamour Magazine Awards and the Stonewall Awards. In 2019 she was awarded an OBE for services to literature.
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