6/29/2023 0 Comments The night watch waters![]() There are ghosts and robbers and shocking twists! The Night Watch, on the other hand, is more realistic. Both The Little Stranger and Fingersmith are more firmly in the tradition of the sensation novel. The Night Watch does feel like a departure from her other books that I’ve read. As far as I’m concerned, Sarah Waters is the complete package. She has all the things I look for: complex, well-constructed plots well-developed characters thought-provoking ideas. This was the third of Sarah Waters’s books that I’ve read (the others being The Little Stranger and Fingersmith), and I continue to be thoroughly impressed with her work. ![]() I’m just going to briefly share some of my impressions here. Jenny reviewed this book just last week, so go take a look at her review to get the details about the plot, characters, and structure of the book. ![]() We only gradually learn how these marvelously drawn characters arrived at their present state, and as we learn, we find that our impressions were not always correct, that these people’s stories are not always what they appear. And as the novel unfolds, we’re carried back in time, with one section taking place in 1944, and the final section taking place in 1941. ![]() Waters fills this novel with a variety of characters, each of whom has his or her own struggles. ![]() The men and women who lived through the war are haunted, but by what? That’s the question that we as readers have as Sarah Waters’s novel The Night Watch opens. It’s 1947, and London is recovering from World War II. ![]()
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