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Key (10 KP) rated The Night Watch in Books

Sep 8, 2017

The Night Watch

Sarah Waters | 2006 | Fiction & Poetry

8.5

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The characters feel real, like people you would pass in the street. (0 more)

The unusual plot layout of this book may be confusing at the first read. (0 more)

'Tender and tragic, set against the turbulent backdrop of wartime Britain'

This is my absolute favourite book, so I'm likely to be biased. The characters feel like real people, and their experiences and thoughts feel as palpable as your own. Let this book sweep you through love and heartbreak, enveloped by war-torn 40s London. The unusual plot layout of this book (moving backwards through time, starting at the end and finishing at the start) may be confusing at the first read, but provides dramatic irony which is integral to the book's brilliance.

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Lindsay (1812 KP) rated Across a War-Tossed Sea in Books

Feb 15, 2018

This book talks about thing on the WWII. Though it mostly though the eyes of two children that are British. You hear their account about how WWII started. You getting from two children that were sent to America to escape the war that Germany and Great Britain.

You read about what the Nazi are doing and POW's and war effort and the allies. You also see what it like for British children learning to fit into the American life style and how to learn to make friends. You also learn about American Americans they used the word "Negro". You learn what life is like in 1940's and segregation's and things that were going on back then.