`Think of it as an adventure, Perry had said right at the beginning of all this.And it had seemed like one. A bit of a lark, she had thought. A Girls' Own adventure.' In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obsc...ure 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. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country's most exceptional writers.
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9780857525895 |
Released AU |
17 Sep 2018 |
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Transworld Publishers |
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Trade Paperback/Paperback |
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Library of Congress |
Women radio producers and directors - Fiction, Nineteen fifties - Fiction |
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General & Literary Fiction |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
NZ Review |
Praise for Kate Atkinson: Inexhaustibly ingenious -- Hilary Mantel Kate Atkinson is a marvel -- Gillian Flynn Kate Atkinson is the author who really made me want to write -- Jojo Moyes Very witty and compassionate about the human condition -- Marian Keyes The kind of book you shove in people's faces, saying `You gotta read this! -- Stephen King Thought-provoking and non-conformist * Sunday Times * Funny, bracingly intelligent...a genuinely surprising novelist * Guardian * Atkinson is brilliantly, defiantly playful with the stuff of fiction * New Statesman * One of the country's most innovative, exciting and intelligent authors -- Scotsman |
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Author's Bio
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.
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