'An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' Observer
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. 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. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever.
Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.
Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country's most exceptional writers.
'How vehemently most novelists will wish to produce a masterpiece as good' Telegraph
KATE ATKINSON
Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. Her most recent novel, Shrines of Gaiety, set in the aftermath of the First World War, is a Sunday Times bestseller. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prize-winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life, an acclaimed 2022 BBC TV series, A God in Ruins both winners of the Costa Novel Award and Transcription. Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Edad: adultos
ATKINSON KATE
Escritora inglesa, Kate Atkinson se licenció en Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Dundee y trabajó como secretaria personal, profesora y autora freelance para revistas femeninas, hasta que en 1995 logró hacerse con el Premio Whitbread. Atkinson ha publicado tanto novela como antologías de relatos, practicando de manera notable el género criminal, demostración de lo cual es el Premio Crime Thriller Gold Dagger de 2009. De entre su obra habría que destacar la serie de novelas protagonizadas por el expolicía y detective privado Jackson Brodie, que han sido llevadas a la televisión en varias ocasiones. En 2011 le fue concedida la Orden del Imperio Británico por su contribución a la literatura inglesa.
