The magnificent new novel by the bestselling and award-winning Kate Atkinson, a major publishing event.
Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. She
won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind
the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and
prizewinning novels set around World War II are Life After Life, A
God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award), and
Transcription. She was appointed MBE for services to literature in
2011.
Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective
Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be
Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog became a BBC television
series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie returns in her new
novel Big Sky.
No other contemporary novelist has such supreme mastery of that
sweet spot between high and low, literary and compulsively readable
as Kate Atkinson. 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. Tragedy and
comedy as so skilfully entwined that you find yourself snorting
with mirth…brimming with dark wit that reminds you how deeply
satisfying good fiction can be.
*Sunday Telegraph*
Transcription stands alongside its immediate predecessors as a fine
example of Kate Atkinson's mature work, an unapologetic novel of
ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller.
*Observer*
Kate Atkinson is a wonderful writer. I want to write like her when
I grow up. Transcription shows she's at the peak of her powers.
Full of beautiful, delicate, sharp sentences and characterisations.
A spy novel that dismantles the whole genre. A class act, as
ever.
*Matt Haig*
Superb...Transcription is the sort of book that reminds you how
profound and satisfying and moving and exhilarating good fiction
can be. It’s the best novel I’ve read all year. I can’t praise it
enough.
*Irish Times*
Never loses its sense of absurdity of human beings even in their
most tragic or noble moments...How vehemently most novelists will
wish to produce a masterpiece as good.
*Daily Telegraph*
On a graph plotting the literary qualities versus saleability of
contemporary British novelists, Kate Atkinson would surely occupy
the highest point where the two meet...There are plenty of twists
and turns in this terrific page-turner, some shocking moments, and
a narrator whom the author encourages us to love.
*Evening Standard*
Atkinson handles her mazy, Le Carre-style plot with complete
authority. But there’s a lot more to the novel than its
page-turning thrills. The increasingly sceptical Juliet makes for a
very appealing heroine and the darker material is interspersed with
some neat comedy. Above all, Atkinson recreates the atmosphere of
both wartime and post-war London with utter conviction.
*Reader's Digest*
[A] superb story of wartime espionage...Hilary Mantel once said of
Atkinson's ground-breaking first novel that she had a "game-plan
more sophisticated than Dickens", and that skill is more than
evident in this latest offering...remarkable...Transcription is a
fine course in the art of deception. The sheer bravura of
Atkinson's storytelling is such that you will find it impossible
not to want to revisit those clues so cleverly placed, as you shake
your head in disbelief at how effortlessly you have been taken
in.
*Times Literary Supplement*
A new Kate Atkinson novel is always a reason to rejoice and
Transcription was everything I was hoping for and more…The truly
surprising denouement makes for one of the best conclusions of a
novel I’ve ever read.I immediately wanted to read it all over
again.
*Red*
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