The fourth novel featuring Jackson Brodie from the No.1 bestselling author of When Will There Be Good News?
Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her four bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. Her 2013 novel Life After Life won the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Prize, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize, voted Book of the Year for the independent booksellers associations on both sides of the Atlantic. It also won the Costa Novel Award, as did her new novel A God in Ruins (2015). She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List, and was voted Waterstones UK Author of the Year at the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards.
'Atkinson's finest novel to date. Indeed, it's one of the finest
British novels, in any genre, to have emerged for years...sharp and
dexterous, subtle and stylish, very funny and at time
extraordinarily cutting...This is very much a state of the nation
novel - far sharper and more observant and satirically
understanding than anything else out there at the moment. And yet
Atkinson also gives us humanity, insight and entertainment...a
story that deserves to be read for decades to come
*Mirror*
The wonder of Atkinson's novels has been their joie de vivre,
extraordinary given the high incidence of violent death. An
irrepressible exuberance shines throughout..folds past and present
together with Atkinson's customary flair...extraordinary
combination of wit, plain-speaking, tenderness and control
*Guardian*
'As ever, Atkinson's prose is diamond-cut to twinkle and slice by
turns'
*Daily Telegraph*
I can't think why it has taken me so long to discover Kate
Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels. Started Early, Took My Dog is the
fourth and is so brilliant that I rushed out and bought the
previous three. Lauded for her literary fiction, Atkinson has taken
to writing crime with ease, skilfully weaving the lives of three
characters into a complex tale of murder, child abduction and
corruption
*Daily Express*
Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious,
panoramic work, full of excitement, colour and compassion
*Sunday Times*
'Atkinson's finest novel to date. Indeed, it's one of the finest
British novels, in any genre, to have emerged for years...sharp
and dexterous, subtle and stylish, very funny and at time
extraordinarily cutting...This is very much a state of the
nation novel - far sharper and more observant and satirically
understanding than anything else out there at the moment. And
yet Atkinson also gives us humanity, insight and entertainment...a
story that deserves to be read for decades to come -- Henry
Sutton * Mirror *
The wonder of Atkinson's novels has been their joie de
vivre, extraordinary given the high incidence of violent death.
An irrepressible exuberance shines throughout..folds past
and present together with Atkinson's customary
flair...extraordinary combination of wit, plain-speaking,
tenderness and control * Guardian *
'As ever, Atkinson's prose is diamond-cut to twinkle and slice
by turns' * Daily Telegraph *
I can't think why it has taken me so long to discover Kate
Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels. Started Early, Took My Dog is the
fourth and is so brilliant that I rushed out and bought the
previous three. Lauded for her literary fiction, Atkinson has
taken to writing crime with ease, skilfully weaving the lives of
three characters into a complex tale of murder, child abduction and
corruption -- Emma Lee-Potter * Daily Express *
Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious,
panoramic work, full of excitement, colour and compassion *
Sunday Times *
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