![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Not because it covers two time periods beginning of World War II and 1950, both in London but because the writing style leaves so many questions. ![]() Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past.Ī different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat.Ī bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. Transcription by Kate Atkinson is a different kind of spy novel, and also a bit confusing. 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.īut after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. ![]() It is a triumphant work of fiction from one. 25, 2018 The author of A God in Ruins (2015) and Life After Life (2013) revisits the Second World War. _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' ObserverIn 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit, and empathy. TRANSCRIPTION by Kate Atkinson RELEASE DATE: Sept. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |