This book has been described as "almost Dickensian"....I should say not. So many unanswered questions weigh down thirteen-year-old C.J. I had this book pushed on me from someone in my building. On the top of it, discovering The Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R Martin diverted my attention further away from it. Now she wanders the street, not certain what she's searching for. Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith and E.B. I really liked the story, it was really interesting and I had to know what was going to happen to Sloane. It has an odd backwards structure which was the least successful feature of the novel for me. Refresh and try again. In post-war London, Viv Pearce is dating Reggie and runs a dating bureau with Helen Giniver, who lives with her older lover, authoress Julia Standing. Having been forced into a new world, Kallie find herself surrounded by vampires. Offer valid for new subscribers only.† Conditions apply. What best worked was how vividly the author evoked London in the war years. Perhaps not a book for everyone--forget about the homosexual sex--Waters' graphic description of a back-alley abortion could serve as the ultimate scare story of a sexual abstinence propaganda program--but altogther a novel to be cherished and enjoyed by lovers of superbly accomplished historical fiction. The first two stories were terrific. As for Viv, I couldn't understand her being with Reg in the first place, so her relationship with him became hugely irritating. as he struggles to understand why his father walked out. I could not get into it at first. The Night watch is about sexual outsiders - a lesbian triangle, a gay young man and his sister who is having an affair with a married man. As a Night Watch agent he must patrol the streets and metro of the city, protecting ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. The setting is London: the story begins in 1947 and works backward to end in 1941. It all takes place in London from 1941 to 1946. I consider myself to be a Sarah Waters fan, so today, it is with a heavy heart, that I am giving one of her works such a low rating. The Night watch is about sexual outsiders - a lesbian triangle, a gay young man and his sister who is having an affair with a married man. The story weaves through the lives of a handful of women, some of whom had tedious office jobs, others the grim work of driving ambulances or sorting through the rubble of destroyed homes, but all bravely assisted their fellow citizens through the messy, tragic business of living in London during the war. It all takes place in London from 1941 to 1946. 4.3 • 59 Ratings; $2.99; $2.99; Publisher Description. The Night Watch (Book) : Waters, Sarah. You may unsubscribe at any time. The Night Watch is the story about four people in a London marked by the Second World War, all trying to find a way for themselves. Welcome back. The Night Watch is a truthful, lovely book that needs no conjuring tricks to make you want to read it again" Observer " The Night Watch leaves you with the sense of having read something rich and complex pared down with consummate skill by a first-class storyteller into a series of deceptively simple tales of love. But "Night Watch" offers compelling evidence that Waters is also a master (mistress? As chronicled in The Way a Door Closes (Henry Holt, 2003), thirteen-year-old C. J.’s world was turned upside down when his father walked out on their family. As my first foray into Sarah Waters, I was poised to love this, especially after hearing of her Angela Carter influence. The Night Watch (Book) : Waters, Sarah. Terry Pratchett, like TS Eliot's Webster, has always been much possessed by death. A towering achievement. " Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. There are. This production of The Night Watch is one of them. No caricatures or ridiculous coincidences here. This is such a touching, sober and tender novel. Annie Anderson has written some amazing books, and Soul Reader was definitely one of them. His father is back now, though C.J. Then Waters works backwards: having shown us where these characters are after. However the characters work well and the atmosphere of wartime London is well drawn.