{"product_id":"night-watch-p-b-z1","title":"The Night Watch: shortlisted for the Booker Prize [2006] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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, \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003eThis 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 . . .     \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"Waters, Sarah","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":46998701146451,"sku":"XG81844082414","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48083340099923,"sku":"XV81844082414","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":42325475360953,"sku":"9781844082414","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/waters-sarah-the-night-watch-shortlisted-for-the-booker-prize-2006-paperback-1157081883.jpg?v=1745178092","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/night-watch-p-b-z1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}