Night Shall Overtake Us

Description

Kate Saunders' bestselling book, reissued with a stunning new jacket In Edwardian England a vow of friendship is a thing of innocence. Even when tested by the passionate militancy of the suffragette movement or the rigorous demands of the Season, the bonds between Rory, Eleanor, Jenny and Francesca hold fast. But nothing can withstand the unprecedented onslaught of the First World War - and as the best of an entire generation is extinguished on the battlefields of Europe, a schoolgirl pledge, too, lies broken...

Kate Saunders is a journalist and writer. She has written for the Sunday Times, the Sunday Express, the Daily Telegraph and Cosmopolitan, and has contributed to Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Start the Week and Kaleidoscope. She lives in London with her son.

If it is possible to imagine Jeffrey Archer and Jilly Cooper pooling their talents, Night Shall Overtake Us is exactly the sort of book they would produce * Sunday Telegraph * Sex, suspense and rip-roaring romance * The Times * Saunders writes with real pathos... a rattling good yarn * Sunday Times * A rich, rollicking novel you don't put down easily * Independent on Sunday * Saunders joins the blockbuster hall of fame with this big splach of a romantic novel * Daily Mail *