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Kate Atkinson’s new novel Transcription asks us how carefully we are paying attention

22 September 2018

9:00 AM

22 September 2018

9:00 AM

Transcription, Kate Atkinson’s 11th novel, sees her returning to the detective fiction she honed in her series about Jackson Brodie, the haunted private eye who, after the murder of his young sister, chased the killers of girls. It also pursues some of the themes of her more recent fictions, Life After Life and A God in Ruins, which explored the ambiguities of war, and questions of chance and fate, with lives played out in multiple permutations.

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