Addressed to Juliet, the notes warn that “you will pay for what you did. 25, 2018 The author of A God in Ruins (2015) and Life After Life (2013) revisits the Second World War. The novel makes no bones about the preponderance of anti-semitic sentiment in the UK as Hitler invaded Europe. Adding to the weirdness are those anonymous notes that someone has begun dropping off at the BBC. TRANSCRIPTION by Kate Atkinson RELEASE DATE: Sept. Transcription is an engaging story that delves into the damage done by the misguided ideology of ordinary citizens as well as the moral implications of spy craft. She senses she is being followed: A man with a pockmarked face and a woman wearing a headscarf garishly decorated with parrots keep popping up. Scattered in between are long sections of the story set in 1950, when Juliet is employed by BBC radio as a producer of educational programs with titles such as the “Explorers’ Club” and “English for the Under-Nines.” But all is not well in Juliet’s placid and somewhat dull postwar world. A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the 1 bestselling author of Life After Life In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is. The very first page of “Transcription” opens on Juliet’s death in 1981 - a death we witness with different emotions when we return to the scene briefly at the very end of the novel. Atkinson’s many fans know better than to expect a straightforward chronological narrative from her instead, she prefers to jump around, intensifying the poignancy of her characters’ lives by giving her readers godlike glimpses of how they will eventually turn out.
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