The midnight news
By: Baker, Jo
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BookPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023Edition: First edition.Description: 317 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593534977.Subject(s): Typists -- Fiction | Grief -- Fiction | Young women -- Fiction | Stalkers -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction | London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1941 -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction.DDC classification: 823/.92 Summary: It is 1940 and bombs are falling on London. Watching from her attic window, Charlotte sees enemy planes flying in over the city and her neighbours' homes turning to rubble. Still grieving for her beloved brother who never returned from France, Charlotte works as a typist for the Ministry of Information, rents a room in a ramshackle house, and shares gin and confidences with her best friend, Elena. Every day brings new scenes of devastation, and after each heartbreaking loss Charlotte comes to fear that something-or someone-else is responsible. Who is the shadow man that seems to be following her? Is her mind playing tricks? Her nerves increasingly frayed, she soon finds her very freedom under threat."-- Provided by publisher
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It is 1940 and bombs are falling on London. Watching from her attic window, Charlotte sees enemy planes flying in over the city and her neighbours' homes turning to rubble. Still grieving for her beloved brother who never returned from France, Charlotte works as a typist for the Ministry of Information, rents a room in a ramshackle house, and shares gin and confidences with her best friend, Elena. Every day brings new scenes of devastation, and after each heartbreaking loss Charlotte comes to fear that something-or someone-else is responsible. Who is the shadow man that seems to be following her? Is her mind playing tricks? Her nerves increasingly frayed, she soon finds her very freedom under threat."-- Provided by publisher
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