Noonday (Life Class Trilogy)

Product DescriptionLondon, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals in order to save the lives of injured survivors. She works alongside former friend Kit Neville while her husband, Paul Tarrant, works as an air-raid warden. Into their midst comes the spirit medium Bertha Mason, grotesque and unforgettable, whose ability to make contact with the deceased finds vastly increased demand as death rains down from the skies. And as old loves and obsessions resurface, Elinor is brought face-to-face with an almost impossible choice.About the AuthorPat Barker is one of England's most important contemporary novelists. The books in her Regeneration Trilogy won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Booker Prize. She lives in England and was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.