# Night Watch

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- Book: [Night Watch](https://www.bookquiver.com/jayne-anne-phillips/night-watch) ([Night Watch.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jayne-anne-phillips/night-watch.md))
- Authors: [Jayne Anne Phillips](https://www.bookquiver.com/jayne-anne-phillips)
- Publisher: little_brown_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0555-842-6
- Published: 2023-09-19
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN FICTION 'Breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES 'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL A mesmerising story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in a mental asylum in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. In 1874, in the wake of the war, trauma haunts civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year, arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their lives. There, far from family, a beloved neighbour, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives. The twin horrors of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their history: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee's father, who left for the war and never returned. Meanwhile in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility - the mystery behind the man they call the Night Watch; the child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution. Epic, enthralling and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds and a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath. Night Watch was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2024 on 6 May 2024