The Night Watch

Virago, 2006. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Good. Hardcover. 473 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Virago, 2006. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good (ex-library) condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Spine has minor lean. Dust jacket has light creasing and moderate rubbing. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping and superficial wear. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are reasonably browned. Pages are lightly tanned and lightly creased. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is the deeply moving story of three women and their love affairs, and a young man who has been in prison, for what we are not sure. It's 1947. The war has ended but its after-shocks linger. Kay, active during the war, when she drove an ambulance, lived full throttle and tended the passionate love she held for Helen, now seeks relief from aimlessess on nocturnal prowls. Helen works side by side with Viv in a dating agency, but Kay isn't the only one to harbour night-time secrets. Helen and Viv have theirs too. Viv's younger brother, Duncan, is the innocent, but the most mysterious of them all. What exactly did he do during the war? Moving back through time, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, this new novel - melancholic, tender, tragic and beautiful - is marvellously realised, capturing the 1940s in ways reminiscent of Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen and Muriel Spark. It is a triumph. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Drama & Sagas; ISBN: 1844082466. ISBN/EAN: 9781844082469. Inventory No: 20050018.. 9781844082469