![]() ![]() She has a biting, sarcastic sense of humour that makes every scene so enjoyable to read. What I love best about her is not the exciting situations she finds herself in, but her inner most thoughts that only us readers are privy to. From then on we switch back and forth between 19, but both decades hold equally enticing and mysterious obstacles for Juliet. We then go even further back to 1940 when Juliet lands at job at the secret service during WWII as she becomes a member of a team dedicated to rooting out German sympathizers-she transcribes the secret conversations they listen in on. The book opens when she’s old and near death, so we know she survives whatever adventure awaits us, and then we skip back to 1950 where she’s living a comfortable if somewhat monotonous life working at the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) in London. We see the world through her eyes, at three different points in her life. The shining star of this book is most definitely our protagonist Juliet Armstrong. Despite this hoopla (and I use the word ‘despite’ on purpose, because book buzz tends to be my worst enemy) I really enjoyed reading it, and it only took me a few days to work my way through it. ![]() ![]() Many said this was Atkinson’s best book to date, and it has been on a bunch of ‘best of 2018’ lists. When Transcription by Kate Atkinson came out in September 2018, there was lots of buzz around it. ![]()
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