AUTOGRAPHED - The Night Watch
By: Sarah Waters
From: Riverhead Books
Pages: 450
UPC: 159448905X
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A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, psychological complexity, and thrilling twists.
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 sometimes surprising ways. In wartime London, the women work--as ambulance drivers, ministry clerks, and building inspectors. There are feats of heroism, epic and quotidian, and tragedies both enormous and personal, but it is the emotional inner lives of her characters that Sarah Waters captures with absolute truth and intimacy.
Waters describes with perfect knowingness the taut composure of a rescue worker in the aftermath of a bombing, the idle longing of a young woman for her soldier lover, the peculiar thrill of a convict watching the sky ignite through the bars on his window, the hunger of a woman prowling the streets for an encounter, and the panic of another who sees her love affair coming to an end. At the same time, Waters is in absolute control of a narrative that offers up stunning surprises and exquisite turns, even as it depicts the impact of grand historical events on individual lives.
Tender, tragic, and beautifully poignant, The Night Watch is a towering achievement and confirms its author as "one of the best storytellers alive today" (The Independent Sunday).