Title: Too little is original
Product review: "Kay Langrish" of "The Night Watch" is too much like "Stephen Gordon" of Radclyffe Hall's 1927 novel, "The Well of Loneliness." Both women are butch, brave, ambulance drivers, rich, conservative, etc. Coincidence? I don't think so. That's just one example of the lack of originality in "The Night Watch." If your knowledge of lesbian literature begins with "Rubyfruit Jungle," Sarah Waters' reliance on earlier sapphic novels won't trouble you--you won't notice. But if, like me, you've read (say) Mary Renault's pre-Alexander books, you'll wonder where the footnotes went.
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