When Will There be Good News? - Softcover
In a quiet corner of rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime, Andrew Decker, is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie, wise beyond her years, works as a nanny for a GP. But Dr. Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend - Jackson Brodie - himself on a journey that is about to be fatally interrupted. In an extraordinary virtuoso display, Kate Atkinson produces one of the most engrossing, brilliantly written and piercingly insightful novels of this or any year. "When Will There Be Good News?" sheds new light on to the nature of fate, and on to the human condition itself.
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Another Jackson Brodie thriller from the brilliant Kate Atkinson...the most enthralling to date. -- Mirror
Atkinson's pitch-perfect ear for dialogue is apparent...while there's plenty of blood and bitterness, redemption and resolve are well represented too. -- Independent
Faultless...plays with the tenets of the crime genre without ever sacrificing the essence of wit and nuance which make Atkinson's novels such jubilant reads. -- Scotland on Sunday
Funny, bracingly intelligent and delightfully prickly...Kate Atkinson is that rarest of beasts, a genuinely surprising novelist. -- Guardian
Gripping...Suspense is tinglingly maintained throughout...shot through with wry wit and gritty realism. -- Daily Express
Immaculately - even lovingly - paced...insightful, often funny, life-affirming. -- Sunday Telegraph
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Atkinson's pitch-perfect ear for dialogue is apparent...while there's plenty of blood and bitterness, redemption and resolve are well represented too. -- Independent
Faultless...plays with the tenets of the crime genre without ever sacrificing the essence of wit and nuance which make Atkinson's novels such jubilant reads. -- Scotland on Sunday
Funny, bracingly intelligent and delightfully prickly...Kate Atkinson is that rarest of beasts, a genuinely surprising novelist. -- Guardian
Gripping...Suspense is tinglingly maintained throughout...shot through with wry wit and gritty realism. -- Daily Express
Immaculately - even lovingly - paced...insightful, often funny, life-affirming. -- Sunday Telegraph
One of the most engrossing and brilliantly written novels of this or any year, by the bestselling author of Case Histories and One Good Turn
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0385614519
- ISBN 13 9780385614511
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- Number of pages352
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