What elevates her fiction above mere playfulness is the emotional integrity of her characters… Atkinson always puts on a damn fine show.’ - The Guardian ‘ From Behind the Scenes at the Museum onwards, she has been chipping away at the fourth wall, mischievously drawing attention to her craft. '.a pacy, witty, atmospheric novel.' - The Financial Times Brimming with dancing dark wit that reminds you how deeply satisfying good fiction can be.' - The Sunday Telegraph 'No other comtemporary novelist has such supreme mastery of that sweet spot between high and low, literary and compulsively readable. Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd ISBN: 9780552776653 Number of pages: 416 Weight: 283 g Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 25 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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. A 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. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past.
But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. 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. In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage.
Think of it as an adventure, Perry had said right at the beginning of all this.
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