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poeticsheretic 's review for:
The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
Waters is best known for Tipping the Velvet, her novel that also became a British miniseries. This one is less daring in terms of the bedroom antics of women who love women... dare I say, it's more romantic? In more than one sense? It's dark, too, though, following ambulance drivers into WWII London under constant bombs, and walking right up to a catalogue of human pain and loss. Somehow it's still a quick and fun read--particularly for a small houseboat party with black market gimlets. Waters gave me a sense of what it must have been like to live in London in the blitz. And I'd like to believe I would have faced it as some of these characters do.