num_pages: 450
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Night Watch
titlecomplete: The Night Watch
genres: Historical, Queer, World War II, Adult, LGBT, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Lesbian, British Literature
ratings_count: 30931
places: United Kingdom
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Golden Crown Literary Award
category: Lesbian Dramatic/General Fiction
publisher: Riverhead Books