Started Early, Took My Dog: (Jackson Brodie)
Kate Atkinson
Nov 2011 · Jackson Brodie Book 4 · Transworld Digital · Narrated by Nicholas Bell
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A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn.
Witnesses to Tracy's outrageous exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie, who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished.
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Lucy Smith
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October 19, 2019
This is an excellent book, with a narrative that moves between time lines and characters. It needs concentration and benefits from listening to again. As a Leeds resident, the descriptions of the area are accurate. The narrator is great. What lets the production down is the lack of a natural pause when moving from one POV to another and, what grated with me: pronouncing the name Niamh as "knee arm" not "neeve" I would have thought this would have been picked up by an editor or producer.
About the author
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.
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