TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker,Jo
TI  - The midnight news
SN  - 9780593534977
U1  - 823/.92 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Typists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Grief
KW  - Young women
KW  - Stalkers
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - England
KW  - London (England)
KW  - History
KW  - Bombardment, 1940-1941
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - Novels
N1  - "This is a Borzoi Book" -- title page verso
N2  - "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"--
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