The Baker, Jo creator author text novel Historical fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Novels. Historical fiction nyu 2023 2023 First American edition monographic eng

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317 pages ; 25 cm "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"-- adult Jo Baker "This is a Borzoi Book" -- title page verso e-uk-en Typists Fiction Grief Fiction Young women Fiction Stalkers Fiction World War, 1939-1945 England Fiction London (England) History Bombardment, 1940-1941 Fiction 823/.92 Baker, Jo. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023 First edition. (DLC) 2022052791 9780593534977 0593534972 9780593468265 0593468260 2022052790 221104 20231018154115.0 1341261386