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The night watch by sarah waters7/3/2023 ![]() And although I loved the style of writing here, it really is so evocative and so wonderfully descriptive, the story seemed to be almost undone by the manner in which it was told. I really enjoyed The Little Stranger but I had problems with the ending. But it doesn’t fit, not really, so I won’t be counting it as an RIP read this year. The title sounded vaguely possibly horror/creepy. I was browsing for something to pick up at the library and came across this. I originally picked this up because the only other Sarah Waters’ book I’d read1 was a wonderful creepy read. They don’t all know one another, but their stories and lives intersect over the course of the book. ![]() ![]() And the war, but the war is more of a backdrop to the story of Kay, Helen, Julia, Duncan and Viv. People and relationships and just plain living. They have yet to become who they were when we met them at the start of the novel.Īs for that the story is about? Well, it is about people. Their loves and losses, the air raids and rations, these things are all ahead of the characters. Their stories progress by going backwards in time, so that when we leave them they have it all to experience. Starting in 1947 The Night Watch tells the story, in reverse chronology, of various people in and around London during the Blitz. ![]()
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