Published: Feb. 11, 2011
Words: 2,565 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458074065

Short description

1939 and war looms between Britain and Germany. An elderly Scottish politician boards a night sleeper train at Euston, London but this will be like no other journey he's made!

Extended description

All his life elderly bachelor Sir Archie has served his country well and put aside his own feelings. But over the last couple of years he's got to know a young man Ronnie Wilson who serves aboard the night train. What brought these two men together is a force beyond reckoning, but what eventually separates them is something altogether different.

Tags

gay, historic, ghost, railways, missed chances

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Review by: Sylvia on June 03, 2012 :
Wonderful atmospheric story
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Review by: Rigby Taylor on Feb. 20, 2011 :
“The Watch” is an absorbing short tale in which the author leads the reader calmly yet irresistibly with spare yet perfectly modulated descriptive prose back in time to pre-war England, perfectly capturing the atmosphere of the great railways, while reminding us of how much more precarious life was then. We feel empathy and affection for the elderly politician, and pity for the hopeless social situation of the young steward. A haunting piece that left me wondering if my life had been too narrowly focussed, reminding me not to miss opportunities.
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