Jayne Ann Phillips Author 2024. This novel lives where a startling imagination meets scrupulous research: Jayne anne phillips’s new novel, “night watch,” about a woman and her daughter in a genteel asylum in west virginia around the time of the civil war, is sludgy, claustrophobic.

“jayne anne phillips is a brilliant artist working at the height of her powers. Word by word, and line by line, there is no one better.