jason_pym 's review for:

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters

4.0

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I came to this after reading Fingersmith, this is very different but still great. The plot twists and panache of the Gothic / capital 'R' Romantic Fingersmith blew me away; The Night Watch is much more of a slow burn, but the characters are so remarkably real it is still a page turner. The scenes with Kay and Mickey driving the ambulance during the bombing of London turn familiar place names into places of horror and destruction, it's visceral stuff. But it is the relationships between the characters that are really gripping, what Waters described as the series of small betrayals.