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The Night Watch
Royal Exchange, Manchester
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HATTIE NAYLOR’S fine adaption of Sarah Waters’s acclaimed novel The Night Watch has very sensibly focused on its four core characters, Kay, Helen, Julia and Duncan.
It’s 1947 and the war has ended but a stifling pall of destruction and inertia hangs over London.
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