The Midnight News

From the best-selling author of Longbourn,a grippingintricately voiced novel of one young womanΓÇÖs unraveling during the BlitzΓÇöa story of WWII intrigueloveand danger. It is 1940 and bombs are falling on London. Watching from her attic windowCharlotte 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 FranceCharlotte has moved away from her overbearing father and built a new life for herself. She works as a typist for the Ministry of Informationrents a room in a ramshackle houseand shares gin and confidences with her best friendElena. Every day brings new scenes of devastationand after each heartbreaking loss Charlotte comes to fear that somethingΓÇöor someoneΓÇöelse is responsible. Who is the shadow man that seems to be following her? Is her mind playing tricks? As Charlotte begins to hear the voices of her lost friendsher nerves become increasingly frayed. Soon she finds herself taken against her will to an asylum in the countrysidea place in which she has a painful history and no clear means of escape . . . Utterly riveting and hypnoticThe Midnight News is a love storya war storyand an unforgettable journey into the fragile mind and fierce heart of an extraordinary young woman.