5/11/2023 0 Comments Kate atkinson started early![]() ![]() Whatever she goes on to write, she leaves Jackson Brodie at a suspenseful and pivotal moment. "A wonderful stylist.but she was never confined to the crime genre, has written in assorted other modes and excels at them all. ![]() ![]() She skips through the difficult steps required to balance the reader's need for satisfying (and surprising) resolution with a realist's view of human nature and the messiness of real-life criminality" - Daily Telegraph ![]() Her playful sense of humour dances round the darkness of her themes. "As ever, Atkinson's prose is diamond-cut to twinkle and slice by turns. An irrepressible exuberance shines throughout.folds past and present together with Atkinson's customary flair.extraordinary combination of wit, plain-speaking, tenderness and control" - Guardian "The wonder of Atkinson's novels has been their joie de vivre, extraordinary given the high incidence of violent death. And yet Atkinson also gives us humanity, insight and entertainment.a story that deserves to be read for decades to come" - Henry Sutton, Mirror Indeed, it's one of the finest British novels, in any genre, to have emerged for years.sharp and dexterous, subtle and stylish, very funny and at time extraordinarily cutting.This is very much a state of the nation novel - far sharper and more observant and satirically understanding than anything else out there at the moment. "Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious, panoramic work, full of excitement, colour and compassion" - Sunday Times With Dickensian brilliance, Kate Atkinson creates plots peopled with unlikely heroes and villains. ![]()
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