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Life After Life
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD, What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?What if there were second chances?
Started Early, Took My Dog
A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase.
One Good Turn
It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved.
When Will There Be Good News?
In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime.Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison.
Case Histories
Case Histories continues a winning streak for Kate Atkinson which began when her impressive novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum won the Whitbread First Novel Award. Since that book,.
The perfectly judged prose that distinguished Human Croquet is fully in evidence in Case Histories,
Emotionally Weird
Family history and identity are Kate Atkinson's twinned keynote themes. Behind the Scenes at the Museum (winner of the Whitbread Book of the year), had "The Family" at its centre, a sweep of charming, related genes who sauntered through the fin de siÞcle to the less glamorous 1992. Her second novel, Human Croquet starred the Fairfaxes, all missing mothers, perfumed with nicotine and danger, and strange aunts. Larkin may be right, your parents fuck you up but in Atkinson's novels yo
Behind The Scenes At The Museum
Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George,
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