The Night Watch is a truthful, lovely book that needs no conjuring tricks to make you want to read it again' Philip Hensher, Observer '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 The Night Watch leaves you with the sense of having ... Read moreread something rich and complex pared down with consummate skill by a first-class storyteller into a series of deceptively simple tales of love. Which is a fancy way of saying that Sarah Waters's latest 'Waters secret is her absolute control of the pace - each strand of the plot is paid out carefully at the same speed, no rushing, no favouritism. The characters are given equal weight and time, so that by the end of the first section you're equally grippe ...this outstandingly gifted novelist releases her imagination into her most compelling depiction yet' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'It is from this reverse structure that the novel draws its haunting power, forcing the reader to experience time not as an ongoing narrative but as memory. We see, in fact, the beginning of each individual tragedy after we have witnessed it consequence. Carol Ann Duffy, Daily Telegraph 'The Night Watch is sharply and compassionately observed, richly coloured, and compelling to read' Michele Roberts, Independent Show Less