Those familiar with Sarah Waters' writing will not be disappointed by her new novel The Night Watch.
Her fluid style of writing allows the story to roll along without interruption, and the characters fit naturally into the canvas of World War Two. The wartime detail seems authentic and is not laid on too thick, the most important thing being the relationships between the characters.
It mainly focuses on a group of women and their lives and loves and, being a Sarah Waters book, a few of them are lesbians. This is not 'issue' writing though, and if Waters has any point to make about different sexual orientations, it is that it doesn't make the person different from anybody else. Also, if you're looking for pornography, then you will have to look elsewhere.
So we have a straightforeward historical romance, only slightly marred by the choice to jump about the chronology of the war. It seemed an unnecessary device, that didn't add anything to the book, but it was only mildly distracting and this was a very good read.
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