The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
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The Night Watch

Author: Sarah Waters

Narrator: Juanita McMahon

Unabridged: 19 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/02/2006

Synopsis

New York Times best-selling author Sarah Waters received sweeping critical acclaim for her debut, Tipping the Velvet, and has been a finalist for the Orange andBooker Prizes. In The Night Watch she tells the riveting, intersecting tales of four Londoners during and after World War II. As these four people survive the devastation of war and experience the dizzying heights of life, their paths cross in ways none of them can foresee.

About Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters has written six novels: Tipping the Velvet (1998, Betty Trask Award); Affinity (1999, Somerset Maugham Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award); Fingersmith (2002, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, and winner of the South Bank Show Award for Literature and the CWA Historical Dagger); The Night Watch (2006, shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize); The Little Stranger (2009, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the South Bank Show Literature Award) and The Paying Guests (2014, shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction). She was included in Granta's prestigious list of 'Best of Young British Novelists 2003', and in the same year was voted Author of the Year at the British Book Awards and the BA Conference, and won the Waterstones Author of the Year Award. In April 2015 she joined the Council of the Society of Authors.

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

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