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The Night Watch (Hardcover)

by Sarah Waters (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (100 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books (23 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 159448905X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594489051
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (100 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,502,771 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Philip Hensher, Observer

'A truthful, lovely book that needs no conjuring tricks to make you want to read it again' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday

'Brilliantly done... a tour-de-force of hints, clues and dropped threads' --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Didn't finish it, 6 Mar 2007
This review is from: The Night Watch (Paperback)
I loved Sarah Waters other books and eagerly waited for this one. But whether it's me or the book - I just didn't care very much about the characters. It's a bravely written book but it's the third book.... where the author seems to get up more in the construction and research than the story.

I was very sorry to give up half way through and hope she's back to her excellent form next time.

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Still Waters run deep, 23 Nov 2006
By A reader (Los Angeles CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Night Watch (Hardcover)
This was my first time reading a novel by Sarah Waters, and I was really impressed with her storytelling talent. The novel tracks an ensemble of characters during WW2, each one of them involved in an unconventional sexual relationship. The period and setting were vividly evoked, and the simple direct prose carried deceptively deep characters and incidents.

"The Night Watch" has a very engaging structure. It is divided into three sections, each one delving farther into the characters' pasts. I was surprised by how effective this technique was, as it probably made me more curious to find out what happened before than in a conventional novel where the author tries to make the reader curious about what happens next.

However, I felt that the novel's only major failing was that its "climax" - i.e. the stories' genesis - was the weakest of the three sections. It contained no major surprises when perhaps I was anticipating some quite startling twists.
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44 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Just superb, 28 Sep 2006
By EmmaH (Dorset, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This is my first foray into Waters territory, and what a wonderful experience it was. At first I found the atmosphere a little gloomy and overcast, the characters rather macabre, but I was soon won over by the sheer brilliance of the writing. Waters ought to be used a paragon in all creative writing classes. The woman does not put a foot wrong. Her language, while never flamboyant, is so perfectly poised that reading her words is like watching a film, so exactly do they conjure up what she is describing.

The characters were so vivid, so unforgettable, so touchingly human, that I felt quite bereaved when I came to the end. But even more compelling was Water's evocation of wartime Britain, and London during the air raids. It was truly like being there yourself.

In short, quite, quite wonderful. Merits every superlative you can think of.
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