Moving 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.

This 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...

Tender, 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.

薩拉·沃特斯（Sarah Waters）, 1966年齣生於英國威爾士，文學博士。

三度入圍“布剋奬”，兩度入圍“萊思紀念奬”。

曾獲“貝蒂·特拉斯剋文學奬”、“毛姆文學奬”。

被《星期日泰晤士報》評為“年度青年作傢”（2000）、文學雜誌《格蘭塔》選為“20位當代最好的英國青年作傢”之一（2003）、“英國圖書奬”評為“年度作傢”（2003）等，文學評論界稱其為“當今活著的英語作傢中最會講故事的作傢”。