![]() ![]() ![]() She also wrote a beloved detective series featuring Cambridge-based private investigator Jackson Brodie, which the BBC adapted to TV. ![]() Her two most recent novels, A God in Ruins (2015) and Life After Life (2013), were critical and popular successes. Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize in 1995, Atkinson has solidified her position as a writer of must-read historical fiction. Since the publication of her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which won the prestigious U.K. Transcription is one of the fall’s most anticipated books, with glowing advance reviews. Her characters, maneuvering in the 1940s and 1950s, speak directly to our time. With a complicated structure–something of a signature for Atkinson–the book highlights the cost of living in a time when no one can be sure of alliances and loyalties, and where rising nationalism threatens the world order. In the best-selling writer’s 10th novel, Transcription, an unlikely spy, Juliet Armstrong, receives an assignment that will alter her life forever. Kate Atkinson pays close attention to history–and how it repeats itself. ![]()
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