
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 & compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners
- three women & a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth & intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war & lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes & 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, & their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances.. . Tender, tragic & beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic & ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises & twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.