TY - BOOK AU - Harvey, Clare G., TI - The night raid SN - 9781471161841 AV - PR6108.A78735 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Knight, Laura, KW - World War (1939-1945) KW - fast KW - Portrait painters KW - Fiction KW - Weapons industry KW - Employees KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - England KW - Nottingham KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft N2 - World-renowned artist Dame Laura Knight is in her 60s when the War Office commissions her to paint portraits of 'bomb girls', women who worked in munitions factories in WWII. She's sent back to her hometown of Nottingham and at first she relishes the opportunity for a nostalgia trip, but when she starts work on a portrait of two particular women (Violet Smith, and her co-worker Zelah Pascoe), memories begin to resurface that she has spent half a lifetime trying to forget ER -