The Midnight Watch is at once a heart-stopping mystery and a deeply knowing novel - about the frailty of men, the strength of women, the capriciousness of fate and the price of loyalty.
David Dyer spent many years as a lawyer at the London legal practice whose parent firm represented the Titanic's owners in 1912. He has also worked as a cadet and ship's officer on a wide range of merchant vessels, having graduated with distinction from the Australian Maritime College. He now teaches English literature in Sydney. This is his first novel.
Historical fiction at its best.
*The Times*
Passionate and gripping.
*Financial Times*
David Dyer turns the sparse record of why the Californian did not
go to the aid of the sinking Titanic into a gripping novel of
flawed people, missed chances, and suspense.
*Charlotte Rogan, author of The Lifeboat*
In The Midnight Watch, David Dyer makes the story of the sinking of
the Titanic brand new-he even makes you wonder what will happen.
This superb novel, the disaster we think we know, comes freshly
alive through its unfamiliar point of view, and David Dyer's vivid
eye for the right and telling detail.
*Peter Nichols, bestselling author of The Rocks*
A fascinating novel. David Dyer has captured all the drama and
emotion of the Titanic disaster from an intriguing new perspective.
Clever, gripping and utterly compelling. Historical fiction at its
very best.
*Hazel Gaynor, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of
The Girl Who Came Home and A Memory of Violets*
The Midnight Watch opens fresh portals on a monumental event with
all the tools of strong historical fiction: deep research,
methodical recreations, and an array of memorable perspectives.
Dyer proves why sometimes it takes fiction to answer history's
question of "How could this happen?" A compelling read and a
journey through this moment in time.
*Matthew Pearl, New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club
and The Last Bookaneer*
David Dyer has achieved that very rare thing, an historical account
of a major event involving impeccable research and detail, yet one
that is a novel first and foremost. The Midnight Watch is a
compelling read, insightful, compassionate and deeply moving from
start to finish.
*Debra Adelaide, author of THE HOUSEHOLD GUIDE TO DYING*
[A] hugely impressive debut novel, a fascinating piece of
historical fiction
*RTE Guide*
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