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  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099562696
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $27.99

Night Shall Overtake Us





Kate Saunders' bestselling book, reissued with a stunning new jacket

In Edwardian England a vow of friendship is a thing of innocence. Even when tested by the passionate militancy of the suffragette movement or the rigorous demands of the Season, the bonds between Rory, Eleanor, Jenny and Francesca hold fast. But nothing can withstand the unprecedented onslaught of the First World War - and as the best of an entire generation is extinguished on the battlefields of Europe, a schoolgirl pledge, too, lies broken...

  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099562696
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $27.99

About the author

Kate Saunders

Kate Saunders is an English author, actress and journalist. Saunders has written for the Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph and Cosmopolitan amongst others and has contributed to Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Start the Week. She lives in London with her son.

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Praise for Night Shall Overtake Us

If it is possible to imagine Jeffrey Archer and Jilly Cooper pooling their talents, Night Shall Overtake Us is exactly the sort of book they would produce

Sunday Telegraph

Sex, suspense and rip-roaring romance

The Times

Saunders writes with real pathos... a rattling good yarn

Sunday Times

A rich, rollicking novel you don't put down easily

Independent on Sunday

Saunders joins the blockbuster hall of fame with this big splach of a romantic novel

Daily Mail