The Night Watch

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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The Library of Congress had catalogued the Riverhead hardcover edition as follows:

Waters, Sarah, date.
     The night watch / Sarah Waters.
          p. cm.
     ISBN: 978-1-1012-1742-9
     1. World War, 1939–1945—England—London—Fiction. 2. London (England)—History—Bombardment, 1940–1945—Fiction. 3. Great Britain—History—George VI, 1936–1952—Fiction. 4. London (England)—History—Fiction. I. Title.
     PR6073.A828N54 2006 2005044927
     823'.914—dc22