{"product_id":"the-night-watch","title":"The Night Watch","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\nShortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Brilliantly done . . . the period detail never overwhelms the simple, passionate human story. It's a tour-de-force of hints, clues and dropped threads' Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e\nThis is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching . . . Helen, clever, sweet, much-loved, harbours a painful secret . . . Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover . . . Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary, here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists. The Night Watch is thrilling. A towering achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virago Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42969551634598,"sku":"9781844082414","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9781844082414_1.jpg?v=1656011526","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/the-night-watch","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}