Note publique d'information : "A new novel from the Booker Prize winning Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration
Trilogy, that unforgettably portrays London during the Blitz (her first portrayal
of World War II) and reconfirms her place in the very top rank of British novelists.
London, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance
driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of
injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband
Paul Tarrant works as an air-raide warden. Once fellow students at the Slade School
of Fine Art before the First World War destroyed the hopes of their generation, they
now find themselves caught in another war, this time at home. As the bombing intensifies,
the constant risk of death makes all three reach out for quick consolation. And into
their midst comes the spirit medium Bertha Mason, grotesque and unforgettable, whose
ability to make contact with the deceased finds vastly increased demands as death
rains down from the skies. Old loves and obsessions resurface until Elinor is brought
face to face with an almost impossible choice. Completing the story of Elinor Brooke,
Paul Tarrant and Kit Neville begun with Life Class and continued with Toby's Room,
Noonday is both a stand-alone novel and the climax of a trilogy. Writing about the
Second World War for the first time, Pat Barker brings the besieged and haunted city
of London into electrifying life in her most powerful novel since the Regeneration
trilogy"--
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