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Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took My Dog
Released: 19/08/2010
Doubleday
In her much anticipated new novel, Kate Atkinson weaves together the lives of security chief Tracy Waterhouse, fading actress Tilly and police detective Jackson Brodie with a maltreated dog in tow. Over a series of peculiar predicaments, larger problems loom and all three learn that the past cannot be escaped.
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The Independent“Like Elizabeth George crossed with Elizabeth Bowen...” Atkinson's detective novels capture the strangeness of modern times, and our supposedly atomised lives, with spiky wit, emotional intelligence and consummate cleverness. All her novels are about the choices that we make and the things we leave...
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80 %
The Sunday Times“In the end, there is magic...” Arriving every two years, like chapters in a fictional compendium of these shoddy times, Atkinson’s canon of crime brings an energizing sense of work written to the minute and to the bone – precise articulations of a “disunited kingdom”...
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80 %
Scotsman“Bright fine lines of literary cocaine...” As well as this impressive tightrope act, she also manages, as before, to sashay a fine line between comedy and tragedy, malignancy and lightness of touch: from the small still voice within to uproarious humour married deftly...
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80 %
Guardian“Extraordinary combination of wit, plain-speaking, tenderness and control...” So much of the narrative is retrospective or interior that there's not much urgency to unfolding events, however highly coloured. And there's a rhetorical whimsy reminiscent of some of Atkinson's earlier books...
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90%
The Telegraph“Sly and juicy...” Atkinson’s prose is diamond-cut to twinkle and slice by turns. Her playful sense of humour dances round the darkness of her themes. She skips through the steps required to balance the reader’s need for satisfying resolution with a realist's view.
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