TY - BOOK AU - Barker,Pat TI - Noonday SN - 9780241146071 (paperback) U1 - 823.914 23 KW - Air raid wardens KW - England KW - London KW - Fiction KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Psychological aspects KW - Middle-aged persons KW - London (England) KW - History KW - Bombardment, 1940-1941 KW - Historical fiction KW - Domestic fiction KW - War stories N1 - Sequel to: Toby's room N2 - Paul Tarrant, Elinor Brooke and Kit Neville first met in 1914 at the Slade School of Art, before their generation lost hope, faith and much else besides on the battlefields of Ypres and the Somme. Now it is 1940, they are middle-aged, and another war has begun. London is a haunted city. Some have even turned to seances in an attempt to contact lost loved ones. As the bombs fall and Elinor and the others struggle to survive, old temptations and obsessions return, and all of them are forced to make choices about what they really want ER -