Transcription is a bravura novel of extraordinary power and substance. Juliet Armstrong is recruited as a young woman by an obscure wartime department of the Secret Service. In the aftermath of war she joins the BBC, where her life begins to unravel, and she finally has to come to terms with the consequences of idealism.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Format: Paperback | 416 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10 : 1784164399
ISBN-13 : 9781784164393
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Publication date: 21 Mar 2019
Category: Fiction
Dimensions: (WxH): 5.63 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 226 g
Author: Kate Atkinson

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prizewinning novels set around World War II are Life After Life, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award), and Transcription. She was appointed MBE for services to literature in 2011.

Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie returns in her new novel Big Sky.