![]() ![]() I look forward to a new Atkinson book like I look forward to Christmas.what lends the novel enchantment is that patented Atkinson double whammy: gravity and levity. "No other contemporary novelist has such supreme mastery of that sweet spot between high and low, literary and compulsively readable as Kate Atkinson. 'How vehemently most novelists will wish to produce a masterpiece as good' Telegraph _ It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country's most exceptional writers. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. ![]() _ THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BY AWARD WINNER KATE ATKINSON 'An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' Observer In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. ![]()
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