![]() One night, Viv appears and hands Kay a gold ring. She spends her days locked in her room in London, her only human contact being with another lesbian, Mickey. The novel begins in 1947 with Kay Langrish, a woman broken by the war. ![]() The war, with its never-ending night watches, serves as a horrifying backdrop and metaphor of the morbidity that surrounds life and love. The storyline follows the fragmented lives and the strange interconnections between Kay, Helen and Julia, three lesbians Viv, a straight woman and Duncan, her brother, whose sexuality is ambiguous. The novel, which is told backward through third-person narrative, takes place in 1940s London during and after World War II. It was shortlisted for both the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the 2006 Orange Prize. ![]() The Night Watch is a dark, 2006 historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters. ![]()
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