by Kate Atkinson
Interesting characters and lush language this is a surreal story of life, death, love and intertwined generations. While interesting it has moments that you question their inclusion. I finished the story still wondering what happened in the story but although that often annoys me I actually enjoye...
I love Kate Atkinson but don't feel this novel is one of her best. Her prose style is still wonderful but this one seemed to lack her usual humour. In places I found it overwhelmingly sad and in others I was totally confused. The ending wasn't as satisfying as it might have been and I felt more t...
I'm a big fan of Kate Atkinson's witty prose and oddball characters, but I have to admit that this novel had a degree of weirdness beyond that found in those of her novels which I have read to date. In a mix of first person and third person narratives, it tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a teenage...
I've really enjoyed all of Kate Atkinson novels, be they her stand-alone novels or her Jackson Brodie crime fiction series, so I was really looking forward to Human Croquet, her only novel that I had yet to read. It came as her second novel after her brilliant debut Behind the Scenes at the Museum, ...
Atkinson deftly handles time changes and multiple stories. In addition to having the main character 'travel' through time, she also has the character ask intriguing questions about time (if we save time, where does it go?).Lots of backing and forthing and wondering which story line is real. It sou...
Behind the Scenes at the Museumhas sat on my shelves for months;now that I see how wonderful thisauthor is, I must read it, too."How can I trust reality when the phenomenal world appears to be playing tricks on me at every turn?" Eliza tells us.And, indeed, it does. Her motherand father disappear. T...
Very strange. Not as enchanting as the later books with Brodie.
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