Transcription: A Novel
by:
Kate Atkinson (author)
A thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of Life After Life 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...
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A thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of Life After Life 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 end
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ISBN:
9780316176637
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Just when I thought I’d read enough World War II books (are they a genre? Should they be?), along comes another from Kate Atkinson, who has brought me through the war twice already, in Life After Life, and A God in Ruins. Ironically, I have these reviews back-to-back, but I actually read Transcripti...
Sorry, I just can't. I'm on page 160 which is the halfway mark & can honestly say I don't care if the protagonist lives or dies. Such a disappointment as I've enjoyed other books by this author & heard such rave reviews about this one. But the glacial pace, plethora of stiff-upper-lip characters &...
A special thank you to NetGalley and Little, Brown and Company for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 she is enlisted to transcribe the conversations that ta...
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