For her only Chicago engagement of a seven-week, four-country book tour, British author Sarah Waters stopped at Women & Children First bookstore on April 10. The event attracted so many fans that it was moved a few doors down to the Swedish Museum Center at the last minute.
Over a hundred women and a handful of men filled the larger space, eager to hear Waters read from her latest novel, The Night Watch. This fourth, much anticipated offering is set in war-time London and revolves around four main characters whose relationships, courage, and jealousies are slowly revealed.
Waters graciously answered questions about historical research, her writing discipline, the demands of promotional tours, the implications of being an out lesbian author, and the current significance of a story so intertwined with the destruction of war.