A few things on this entry: I started to read "The Night Watch" by Waters last semester (October-ish), and one of my English classes sophomore year (called "Literature and the Unconscious") featured "The Turn of the Screw" as well as some other Gothic literature.
The Waters novel moved a little too slow for me to finish (although I think you hit the nail on the head with the phrase "slow burn," which I believe definitely applies to certain passages). It was also very preoccupied with details of British life in the 1940s that just don't signify for me, being a young American woman.
One aspect of "The Night Watch" that was interesting to me was the constant references to the Helen's fear that her girlfriend would leave her; how, because their relationship was not "officially" sanctioned by society it was impossible for her to communicate to their friends and acquaintances that they were actually a couple, etc. I felt that fear pretty acutely.
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I've never been a Sarah Water's fan but you made me want to give this one a try.
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The Waters novel moved a little too slow for me to finish (although I think you hit the nail on the head with the phrase "slow burn," which I believe definitely applies to certain passages). It was also very preoccupied with details of British life in the 1940s that just don't signify for me, being a young American woman.
One aspect of "The Night Watch" that was interesting to me was the constant references to the Helen's fear that her girlfriend would leave her; how, because their relationship was not "officially" sanctioned by society it was impossible for her to communicate to their friends and acquaintances that they were actually a couple, etc. I felt that fear pretty acutely.
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