02759cam a2200505 i 4500 1341261386 MeVbMML 20231018154115.0 221104t20232023nyu e 000 f eng 2022052790 9780593534977 0593534972 9780593468265 0593468260 (OCoLC)1341261386 (OCoLC)1377294087 AJM pcc e-uk-en 823/.92 23 B17474 .m Baker, Jo, author 14446 The midnight news / Jo Baker First American edition New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023 ©2023 317 pages ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi Book" -- title page verso "From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman's unraveling during the Blitz-a story of WWII intrigue, love, and danger. 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 has moved away from her overbearing father and built a new life for herself. She 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. . . Utterly riveting and hypnotic, The Midnight News is a love story, a war story, and an unforgettable journey into the fragile mind and fierce heart of an extraordinary young woman"-- Provided by publisher Typists Fiction 14447 Grief Fiction 5896 Young women Fiction 6143 Stalkers Fiction 6131 World War, 1939-1945 England Fiction 14358 London (England) History Bombardment, 1940-1941 Fiction 14359 Historical fiction. lcgft 129 Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft 485 Novels. lcgft 50 Historical fiction 129 Online version: Baker, Jo. Midnight news First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023 9780593534984 (DLC) 2022052791 .b179411160 ddc BOOK 29059 29059 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2023-10-18 29.00 1 BAKE 64564 2024-03-19 2024-03-12 2023-10-18 BOOK 1