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When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel - Community Reviews back

by Kate Atkinson
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jemidar
jemidar rated it 13 years ago
Buddy read with Kim & Anna :-).
afterwhat
afterwhat rated it 14 years ago
Joanna Hunter's mother, older sister, and baby brother were murdered when she was a little girl. Joanna was with them, but she fled into a cornfield before the attacker managed to get to her. Now, days after the murderer was released from prison, Joanna and her baby have gone missing. Reggie, Joa...
Amy Reads Books
Amy Reads Books rated it 14 years ago
I preferred this to One Good Turn; it was less a murder mystery, and whilst there is an escalating issue, it seemed to be more of an exploration of the characters than anything else. That isn't to say that the escalating tension surrounding Joanna Hunter isn't frightening; in fact it may be more ner...
Nitya
Nitya rated it 14 years ago
Good read!
Paradoxically
Paradoxically rated it 15 years ago
Even though I loved the first book and enjoyed the 2nd one, I have stopped reading this one for now. I am sure it is good but for some reason it just can't hold my interest at the moment. I will finish reading it eventually. **************OK, I am late updating this. Basically, I finished it, and it...
Between The Bookends
Between The Bookends rated it 16 years ago
This was my first time reading this author and honestly just found this novel to be OK. I found it very disjointed and way to many storylines to keep track of. Of course all tied together at the end with the most thinnest of strings. I think this had the potential of being a really great book if the...
The City Of Invention
The City Of Invention rated it 16 years ago
When Will There Be Good News? won the Richard & Judy Best Read at the British Book Awards. It's been very favourably reviewed in The Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Telegraph, and by innumerable Goodreads members. I find this bewildering. I very much enjoyed Behind The Scenes At The Museum, which...
kimberlytroyer
kimberlytroyer rated it 16 years ago
First off, the cover of this book is so 'ladies' lit'-y that I was embarassed to read it on the bus, but luckily I got sick on Christmas eve and could read in the privacy of my own home.I am always kind of reluctant to give any book five stars, but, honestly, I love Jackson Brodie I love multiple st...
auntieannie
auntieannie rated it 17 years ago
As always, it starts out with a confusing cast of disparate characters in their separate chapters and a dark sense of foreboding. Awful things are going to happen. And they do, and then more awful things happen, because as one of the characters Louise I think, the Chief Inspector, says, "just becaus...
The Welsh Bookworm
The Welsh Bookworm rated it 56 years ago
These books keep getting better and better. The only reason I didn't rate this a "5" is I found the American narrator's "fake" Scottish and Irish accents very annoying. (Audio book narrated by Ellen Archer.) Jackson Brodie gets on the wrong train and ends up in a horrific train crash near Edinburgh....
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