The Night Watch

Limited first edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 474, [1, blank]. Pale-blue cloth boards, title embossed in white to spine and stamped in blind to front cover; orange patterned endpapers. Housed in publisher's matching pale-blue slipcase and shrink-wrap, sans dustjacket, as issued. 1/1000 numbered and signed copies.

Winner of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize and the MAN Booker Prize. Named one of Granta's best British writers under the age of forty in 2003. Author's fourth novel. Set during the air raids, blacked-out streets, and sexual adventure of World War II London, The Night Watch is Waters's "finest achievement yet", according to The Guardian. A BBC dramatization, adapted by Paula Milne and directed by Richard Laxton was broadcast on BBC Two, on 12 July 2011. "[A] wonderful novel. Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character." –Chicago Tribune