Sarah Waters — The Night Watch

London, Virago, 2006. First edition. Cloth. A signed First Limited Edition of Sarah Water's award winning novel The Night Watch A First Limited Edition of The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, signed by the author with a slipcase. This copy is issue 572 of 1000.The Night Watch is Waters' fourth fiction novel, which won the Lambda Literary Award in 2007. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Orange Prize in 2006. The plot takes place in 1940s London and follows the lives of five protagonists and their interconnections. Three of the protagonists, Kay, Helen and Julia, are lesbians. The novel was adapted in 2011 for television by BBC2. Sarah Ann Walters OBE is renowned for historic queer fiction novels, typically set in Victorian society with lesbian protagonists. In 2009, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was Author of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards, and won 'Writer of the Year' at the Stonewall Awards twice in the years 2006 and 2009.In the original publisher's cloth binding with slipcase. In original publisher's cloth binding with slipcase. The slipcase is in fine condition. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .