The Night Watch

Name: The Night Watch
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Sarah Waters
ISBN: 9780593559826

Author: Sarah Waters

Narrator: Juanita McMahon

Unabridged: 18 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 08/17/2021

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Military Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

“[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.

About The Author

Sarah Waters is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Paying Guests, The Little Stranger,The Night Watch, Fingersmith, Affinity, and Tipping the Velvet. She has three times been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, has twice been a finalist for the Orange Prize, and was named one of Granta’s best young British novelists, among other distinctions. Waters lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Violet

Henry James once said novels deal with the “palpable present-intimate” and the two novels I’ve been reading this month, this and The Way Back to Florence, are both massively successful at enthralling through an intimacy of observation. Both novels are set during WW2, both are superbly researched, so......more

Goodreads review by John

The Night Watch is another masterpiece by Sarah Waters, my second-favorite of her books after Fingersmith. The Night Watch tells the story of four main characters whose lives are profoundly changed as a result of World War II. At the beginning of the novel, we see the characters after the war, all so......more

Goodreads review by Sabrina

Reading a Sarah Waters novel is like eating a pomegranate. Sweet exotic fruit. However, you have to be patient in order to enjoy the fruits of your labor.......more

Goodreads review by Helene Jeppesen

4.5/5 stars. I think this is my favourite book by Sarah Waters that I've read so far. Unlike some of her other books, I feel like this one had a great ending that wrapped things up beautifully. The most astonishing thing about this story is the fact that it is told backwards. We start in London in 1......more

Goodreads review by Julie

This is such a touching, sober and tender novel. The setting is London: the story begins in 1947 and works backward to end in 1941. The story weaves through the lives of a handful of women, some of whom had tedious office jobs, others the grim work of driving ambulances or sorting through the rubble......more

Quotes

“Flawless…A sophisticated beautifully written novel.”
—The Washington Post

“Captivating.”
—The New York Times

“Masterful.”
—The Seattle Times

“[A] wonderful novel…Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character.”
—Chicago Tribune

“Waters has the gift of story, the ability to dissolve the distance between reader and subject until nothing but experience remains.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Compelling…sexually and psychologically provocative.”
—USA Today

Awards

Orange Prize for Fiction