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COPYRIGHT 2006 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
THE NIGHT WATCH by Sarah Waters Virago, 16.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 473, ISBN 1844082466 [tel] 13.59 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.45 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 429 6655
The prizewinning novelist Sarah Waters enjoys subverting our expectations, telling tales of the illicit, stripping away our veneers of polite respectability. In Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet she laid bare a Victorian world of lesbian love, titillating her readers with the scurrilous idea that women could have had a good time without those bewhiskered men of empire. For her latest book, she has moved centuries, swapping bodices and ankle boots for slacks and silk pyjamas.
The Night Watch is set...
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