THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER- THE RETURN OF JACKSON BRODIE, 'LIKE ALL GOOD DETECTIVES, A HERO FOR MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE' (The Times) - a brilliant new literary crime novel from Kate Atkinson.
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.
The main plot...is dark and disturbing, but Atkinson brings wry
comic touches to the story as she both playfully inhabits
and deftly subverts the crime genre. * Observer *
Big Sky is laced with Atkinson's sharp, dry humour,
and one of the joys of the Brodie novels has always been
that they are so funny. * Observer *
Atkinson weaves a magically absorbing world full of crossed
paths and coincidences. Her sublime turn of phrase, impeccable
gallows humour, beautifully drawn characters and complex
plotting make for a fabulously entertaining and moving book.
It can be enjoyed as either a standalone mystery or a very welcome
reunion with an old friend. * Sunday Mirror *
A masterclass in what can be done with crime fiction,
brilliantly using the form to expose what Atkinson bleakly
describes as 'one more battle in the war against women'. * Sunday
Times *
Atkinson's new mystery hits all the right notes * Sunday
Times Style *
Atkinson brings back her much-loved PI Jackson Brodie for a
tightly plotted tale...the real mystery here is the human heart,
with Atkinson serving up an acute and believable look at the
state of Britain today. * i *
I romped through it: as ever, the plotting is clever and
complex, it's full of the dry wit Atkinson is so good at
and it's an absorbing mystery. * Good Housekeeping *
There's a lot going on here, all of it rendered with Atkinson's
vastly enjoyable nonchalance...Atkinson tells a great story,
toys with expectations, deceives by omission, blows smoke and also
writes like she's your favourite friend. Thank goodness the
long Jackson Brodie hiatus is over. * New York Times *
Atkinson throws in many entertaining diversions, and a fair few
juicy red herrings... an exuberant, entertaining
read...Atkinson's work is always playful, and there's a
brisk, jaunty tone to Big Sky and much dry
observational comedy. * Independent *
The brilliance of Big Sky lies in its broad range of
memorable characters, each with their own intriguing
backstory.....sharp humour,sparkling prose and acute
psychological insight. * Daily Express *
A stunning comeback... Told in Atkinson's typically wry
prose, it is Dickensian in sweep, utterly riveting and has a
wonderful ending, quite magnificent. * Daily Mail *
I can't get enough of Jackson Brodie...he may well be the great
fictional detective of our age...her bunch of seemingly
ordinary but deeply fascinating characters... seem so real that you
come to care about them like your oldest friends. * Sunday Express
*
As usual, it's ingeniously structured and told with
humour and compassion. * New Statesman *
Her peerless ability to plot with audacity and with a sinuous
beauty...it's the most marvellous book, so delightful
you'll want to eke it out for as long as possible. * Radio Times
*
Jackson Brodie gets his fifth outing in the new novel by the
reliably brilliant Atkinson. * Woman & Home *
You can't go wrong with the majestic new Kate Atkinson
book...wise, funny and sad. * Stylist *
Jackson Brodie is back and how we've missed him....you're in for a
treat. * Red *
How can anyone fail to love Kate Atkinson?...A gripping
beach read for lovers of detective fiction. * ES magazine *
Atkinson's nimble and endearing skill across all her
fiction...is to take the determinedly domestic, find the wry,
sometimes waspish humour in it, and yet reveal something
profoundly humane....And deft misdirection, cheeky literary
references and Brodie's flailing attempts to offer sympathy by
quoting country-and-western lyrics are constantly
entertaining. You finish Big Sky feeling battered - but
thoroughly cheered up. * The Times *
With a many-tentacled storyline distilling some of the more
disturbing headlines of recent years, this dark material proves
supremely compulsive...Brodie brings out the best in
Atkinson, partly because he's a handy peg for what tends to come
across as her regretful sense of bemusement about modern Britain. *
Metro *
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