THE MIDNIGHT NEWS, by Jo Baker (Hachette, $37.99)
t’s London in 1940 and the Blitz has just begun. Charlotte Richmond, the 20-year-old daughter of a baronet, is doing her bit for the war effort in the Ministry of Information. Charlotte’s life is thrown into uproar when she starts losing friends to the bombs. She’s already lost her beloved brother, Eddie, in the early months of the war. But she doesn’t totally lose her dead friends’ company. They start talking to her, at times amusingly jostling for her attention. Charlotte notices that one man keeps popping up wherever she is and she begins
