A wonderful novelWaters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of characterChicago Tribune Moving back through the s through air raids blacked-out streets illicit partying and sexual adventure to end with its beginning in The Night Watch tells the story of four Londonersthree women and a young man with a pastwhose 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
