WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARD AND BESTSELLING LITERARY PAPERBACK OF 2016- NOW INCLUDING AN EXCLUSIVE SAMPLE FROM KATE ATKINSON'S NEW NOVEL TRANSCRIPTION.
Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. Her most recent novel, Shrines of Gaiety, set in the aftermath of the First World War, is a Sunday Times bestseller. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prize-winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life, an acclaimed 2022 BBC TV series, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription. 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 later returned in the novel Big Sky. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Triumphant...such a dazzling read...Atkinson gives Teddy's wartime
experiences the full treatment in a series of thrilling set pieces.
Even more impressive,though, is her ability to invest the more
everday events with a similar grandeur...almost as innovative as
Atkinson's technique in Life After Life - a possibly more authentic
as an expression of how it feels to be alive...it ends on one of
the most devastating twists in recent fiction...it adds a further
level of overwhelming poignancy to an already extraordinarily
affecting book.
*Daily Telegraph*
There are glimpses of Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong and Ian McEwan's
Atonement...But most poignantly, this is a sweeping, all-consuming
novel that finds its way into your bloodstream and writes off your
Sunday afternoon...truly extraordinary.
*Stylist*
Engrossing...convincing and moving...I doubt that Atkinson's
readers will be disappointed.
*Sunday Times*
Subtly fine new novel…Ms Atkinson’s artistry…is marvellously
delicate and varied…devastating.
*New York Times*
This book is particularly lovely and melancholy...one of those
writers that really can make you weep on one page and laugh on the
next... She just has such a vast humanity for her characters.
*NPR*
Heartbreaking...an ambitious, sensitive and beautifully written
novel by one of our most gifted storytellers.
*Daily Express*
The tender exploration of themes of family, love and loss
contribute to the impact of this story that, like Life After Life,
is beautifully written, stunningly constructed, and will linger
long in the memory. Superb.
*Sunday Mirror*
As ever, Kate Atkinson is adept at ferreting her way into the minds
of unlovely characters until you feel you know and understand
them...While this is a tale of a life spared, the tone is one of
elegy.
*Daily Mail*
Magnificent...In A God in Ruins, she's written not only a companion
to her earlier book, but a novel that takes its place in the line
of powerful works about young men and war, stretching from Stephen
Crane's Red Badge of Courage to Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds and
Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
*Washington Post*
Kate Atkinson just keeps getting better…A God in Ruins is a
stunner…I laughed out loud…this bleak and beautiful book…Atkinson’s
genre-bending novels have garnered critical praise, but nothing on
the order of a Rushdie, or even an Ian McEwan. A God in Ruins
should change that.
*Chicago Tribune*
A sprawling, unapologetically ambitious saga that tells the story
of postwar Britain through the microcosm of a single family, and
you remember what a big, old-school novel can do...especially
impressive.
*New York Times Book Review*
Atkinson follows up her Costa Award-winning Life After Life with a
dazzling novel about the genteel Todd family… The narrative is less
slippery, but no less compelling.
*People*
A riveting exploration of the complexities of family life
*Psychologies*
Kate Atkinson's understanding of how we work is off the scale
*Sainsbury's Magazine*
If you were blown away by Life After Life, you'll be dazzled by
this companion piece...an extraordinary tour de force.
*Woman and Home*
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