The Night Watch Sarah Waters by Sarah Waters 9781844082469, 1844082466 instant download after payment.

Sarah Waters’ engaging fiction about four Londoners whose lives and secrets during and after the Second World War connect in often startling ways.

War leads to strange alliances. 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. Helen, clever, sweet, much loved, harbours a painful secret. Meanwhile, Viv, the glamour girl, is stubbornly loyal to her brother, Duncan, an apparent innocent who has had his own demons to fight during the war.

"Waters secret is her absolute control of the pace - each strand of the plot is paid out carefully at the same speed, no rushing, no favouritism. The characters are given equal weight and time, so that by the end of the first section you're equally gripped by all of them. It is in the second section that Waters really proves her genius with plot. We never return to the future, the drama of The Night Watch runs backwards into the war, then before. It is a measure of Waters' talent that this isn't frustrating and that the reader is quite happy to allow her to resolve all the tensions in character and plot in the past."  - Mary Wakefield, Sunday Telegraph

Sarah Waters’ novels have won the Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Her novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch have all been adapted for television. Sarah Waters has been named Author of the Year four times: by the British Book Awards, the Booksellers’ Association, Waterstone’s Booksellers and the Stonewall Awards.