The Night Watch Part Two: a walk through a City of London air raid

The Curiously Specific Book Club

We’re back with part two of our adventure with The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters, an extraordinary novel of romantic accident and passionate love against the backdrop of the Blitz and Baby Blitz in Second World War London. In this episode we follow the extraordinary walk taken by two of the book’s protagonists, Julia and Helen, as they walk across the City of London during an air raid. It’s a landscape of doomed churches and hidden alleyways, now loomed over by gargantuan office blocks. We doff our caps to the intelligence and diligence of Sarah Waters, whose research chops are staggering, and we also uncover the hidden history of the WW2 London Auxiliary Ambulance Service, which was staffed almost entirely by women.

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