![]() ![]() Waters's sharply drawn page-turner doesn't quite equal the work of literary greats who've already mapped out WWII-era London. Through all the turmoil on the world stage, the characters steal moments of love, fragments of calm and put their lives on the line for great sex and small kindnesses. ![]() The novel works backward in time, beginning in 1947, as London emerges from the rubble of war, then to 1944, a time of nightly air raids, and finally to 1941, when the war's end was not in sight. There are Kay, a "night watch" ambulance driver her lover, Helen two imprisoned conscientious objectors, upper-class Fraser and working-class Duncan Duncan's sister, Viv Viv's married soldier-lover, Reggie and Julia, a building inspector–cum–mystery novelist. She populates the novel with ordinary people overlooked by history books and sets their individual passions against the chaotic background of extraordinary times. ) applies her talent for literary suspense to WWII-era London in her latest historical. ![]()
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