ABOUTTHE MIDNIGHT NEWS

From the bestselling author ofLongbourn, a gripping novel of one young womans unraveling during the Blitza story of World War II intrigue, love, and danger [A] thrilling novelatmospheric and memorable. Emma Donoghue, bestselling author ofHaven

It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother, who never returned from France, she is trying to keep herself out of trouble: holding down a typist job at the Ministry of Information, sharing gin and confidences with her best friend, Elena, and dodging her overbearing father.

On her way to work she often sees the boy who feeds the birdsa source of unexpected joy amid the rubble of the Blitz. But every day brings new scenes of devastation, and after yet another heartbreaking loss