![]() ![]() 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 bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realise that there is no action without consequence. ![]() A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. Transcription is a testament to Atkinsons inventiveness as a storyteller, as well as to her powers for creating characters too real for comfort.' The Washington Post 'No matter the genre, Atkinson displays more wit and word play, more delight in the fecundity of the English language, than just about any contemporary novelist. 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 sympathisers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. In 1940, 18-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.And it had seemed like one. The magnificent new novel by best-selling award-winning Kate Atkinson. Random House presents the audiobook edition of Transcription by Kate Atkinson, read by Fenella Woolgar. ![]()
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