num_pages: 528
description: This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9781594482304.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 and compelling storyteller.This is the story of four Londoners  three women and a young man with a past drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. 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 alliancesTender tragic and beautifully poignant set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.
language: English
title: The Night Watch
publisher: Riverhead Books