The night watch
By: Sarah Waters
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print
Publisher: Howes; Clipper
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leicester [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9781846324147
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction; History
Description: Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, this is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past. 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 alliances ...