The Night Watch
by:
Sarah Waters (author)
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,...
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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 irreversi
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ASIN: B000OI1AAC
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Pages no: 513
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
War,
World War II,
Glbt,
Queer,
Lesbian,
Fiction,
Historical
I´m one of those readers that needs a plot and I tend to struggle with character studies. But leave it to Sarah Waters to write a character study that has completely won me over. She slowly pulled me in into the lives of these four characters and I enjoyed every second of it. I have to say, though...
This novel, The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters, should not work. It’s written backwards, for crying out loud. But it does. It’s a tense read, full of questions about how people end up where they are in life—and if they might have avoided their fates if they’d just made different choices. We start in 1...
Well-written and engaging, with intriguing characters and a lot of drama. However, a lot of the intrigue comes purely from it being written backwards - the book is split into 3 parts, starting out in 1947, then 1944, then ending in 1941 - it feels contrived and frustrating, for it to constantly re...
"She went down the steps and started to walk. She stepped like a person who knew exactly where they were going, and why they were going there— though the fact was, she had nothing to do, and no one to visit , no one to see. Her day was a blank, like all of her days. She might have been inventing the...
bookshelves: women, war, glbt, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts, britain-england, historical-fiction, wwii Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: gift from my husband Read in April, 2009 ** spoiler alert ** I've just finished The Irresistible Inheritance Of Wilberforce A Novel in Four Vintages which was a story...
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