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.
Sarah Waters is the author of Tipping the Velvet, a New York Times Notable Book, Affinity, which won her the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award, and Fingersmith, which was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize in 2002. Waters was named one of Granta's best British writers under forty in 2003.