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The Night Watch

Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, this is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past. 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 ...

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  • "Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, this is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past. 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 ..."@en
  • "Waters (Fingersmith) applies her talent for literary suspense to WWII-era London in her latest historical. She populates the novel with ordinary people overlooked by history books and sets their individual passions against the chaotic background of extraordinary times. There are Kay, a "night watch" ambulance driver; her lover, Helen; two imprisoned conscientious objectors, upper-class Fraser and working-class Duncan; Duncan's sister, Viv; Viv's married soldier-lover, Reggie; and Julia, a building inspector, cum, mystery novelist. The novel works backward in time, beginning in 1947, as London emerges from the rubble of war, then to 1944, a time of nightly air raids, and finally to 1941, when the war's end was not in sight. Through all the turmoil on the world stage, the characters steal moments of love, fragments of calm and put their lives on the line for great sex and small kindnesses. Waters's sharply drawn page-turner doesn't quite equal the work of literary greats who've already mapped out WWII-era London. But she matches any of them with her scene of two women on the verge of an affair during a nighttime bombing raid, lost in blackout London with only the light of their passion as a guide."@en
  • "Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit liasons, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of Londoners: three women and a young man with a past - whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in ways that are surprising not always known to them. 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 the emotional interiors of her characters that Waters captures with absolute and intimacy."
  • "A tale set in World War II finds a rescue worker struggling for composure after a bombing, a young woman longing for her soldier lover, and a convict who watches a battle through the bars of his window."
  • "In het na-oorlogse Londen zijn vier mensen door de oorlog op verschillende manieren met elkaar verbonden."
  • "Set in 1940s London, this story follows four characters - Kay, Helen, Viv and Duncan - as they deal with their everyday lives, set against the backdrop of World War Two."
  • "The story of three women in post-World War II London, their love affairs and the mysterious young man who will have a powerful impact on their lives. From the author of "Fingersmith.""@en
  • "Fünf junge Londoner haben im Krieg ums Überleben gekämpft. Sie haben sich auf verbotene Liaisons und sexuelle Abenteuer eingelassen. Nach dem Krieg wirken diese Erfahrungen nach, doch fast jeder scheint wieder einen Platz im Leben zu finden."
  • "Follows a group of four people living in World War II-era London at three different points in their lives: in the aftermath of the war, during its height, and the early days of the war."
  • "Follows a group of four people living in World War II-era London at three different points in their lives: in the aftermath of the war, during its height, and the early days of the war."@en
  • "Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, quatre Londoniens tentent de renaître, chacun à sa manière, après les bouleversements de la guerre. Kay, ancienne héroïne du Blitz, Helen, rongée par sa liaison interdite avec Julia. Viv, une jeune femme qui ne parvient pas à quitter son amant. Ou encore Duncan, le frère de Viv, que son séjour en prison a rendu asocial."
  • ""[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."@en
  • "A tale set in World War II finds a rescue worker struggling for composure after a bombing, a young woman longing for her soldier lover, and a convict who watches a battle through the bars of his window. Moving backward through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, this novel 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, surprise, and turns, only to change irreversibly in the shadow of a grand historical event."@en

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  • "Littérature anglaise"
  • "Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "War stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Récits de guerre"
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Lesbian fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Roman historique"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Authors' autographs (Provenance)"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Roman anglais"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Pod osłoną nocy"
  • "Pod osłoną nocy"@pl
  • "The Night Watch"@en
  • "The night watch"
  • "The night watch"@en
  • "Gece nöbetı"
  • "Nochnoĭ dozor : [roman]"
  • "Pod oslona nocy"
  • "Ronde de nuit : roman"
  • "Die Frauen von London Roman"
  • "Nattvakten"@sv
  • "Turno di notte"
  • "Turno di notte"@it
  • "Ronda nocturna"@es
  • "Ronda nocturna"
  • "The night Watch"
  • "De nachtwacht"
  • "Ronda noctura"
  • "Noční hlídka"
  • "Die Frauen von London : Roman"
  • "A rolda nocturna"
  • "Ночной дозор : [роман]"
  • "Ronde de nuit"
  • "Nattevagt : roman"@da
  • "Nattevagt : roman"

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