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In 1940, eighteen year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once under threat A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of the best writers of our time. Best Download Transcription [ by ] Kate Atkinson [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr May I tempt you This question is the impetus which shifts a very young woman from a job merely transcribing traitorous conversations deliberately overheard during WWII in London into a bonafide spy Working at the BBC ten years, later her misdeeds of the past come back to haunt her For a nov...Not all of Kate Atkinson s novels have been what she calls historical fiction, but the last several have been This novel may hew closest to the truth, though like she says in the Author s Note at the end, she wrenched open history and stuffed it with imaginative reconstruction, at least one fantasy for each fact The author tells us afterward what her intentions were we have questions that s inevitable and instead of farming out possible answers to various reviewers, she s just blunt with us w Not all of Kate Atkinson s novels have been what she calls historical fiction, ...If you ve only read a couple of Kate Atkinson novels, you may think she does just one thing She doesn t In fact, I tend to get a little miffed when she sticks with one thing for too long because I want to see her stretch out in every direction When I started TRANSCRIPTION and realized we were back in WWII major setting of her last two novels I thought, Nooooooooo not again, but I couldn t have beenwrong This isn t a follow up to LIFE AFTER LIFE or A GOD IN RUINS in any significant If you ve only read a couple of Kate Atkinson novels, you may think she does just one thing She doesn t In fact, I tend to get a little miffed when she sticks with one thing for too long because I want to see her stretch out in every direction When I started TRANSCRIPTION and realized we were back in WWII major setting of her last two novels I thought, Nooooooooo not again, but I couldn t have beenwrong This isn t a follow up to LIFE AFTER LIFE or A GOD IN RUINS in any significant way This, my friends, is a spy novel and a real juicy one at that But it does have the one Atkinson trademark, where you finish it feeling like you ve re...I m so excited a new Kate Atkinson novelThanks to the publisher for providing a free digital ARC, via Netgalley I just finished the book, loved it it is very rare for me to 5 star a book , and I plan to not only re read it, but also buy a copy when it s published.This book is a special treat for readers who enjoy novels about people especially women involved in World War II and or the Cold War intelligence work in England Like many Kate Atkinson novels, there is some time jumping here There are short bookends set in 1981, but th Thanks to the publisher for providing a free digital ARC, via Netgalley I just finished the book, loved it it is very rare for me to 5 star a book , and I plan to not only re read it, but also buy a copy when it s pu...Hitler was collecting countries like stamps How long before he had the full set Transcription by Kate AtkinsonI was swept into Transcription, enthralled with Kate Atkinson s atmospheric and witty writing, the recreation of England during the rise of Hitler, and the espionage ring with its vivid characters and uncertain alliances.The novel opens in 1950 with twenty eight year old Juliet working in post war London for the BBC There was a better life somewhere, Juliet supposed, if only she could Hitler was collecting countries like stamps How long before he had the full set Transcription by Kate AtkinsonI was swept into Transcription, enthralled with Kate Atkinson s atmospheric and witty writing, the recreation of England during the rise of Hitler, and the espionage ring with its vivid characters and uncertain alliances.The novel opens in 1950 with twenty eight year old Juliet working in post war London for the BBC There was a better life somewhere, Juliet supposed, if only she could be bothered to find it Transcription by Kate AtkinsonJulie fingers her necklace of pearls, which she admits she took off a dead woman who was heavier to lift than she looked We learn that Julie tells lies to strangers She sees a man she used to know by two names, who tells her I think you have confused me with someone else And in a local cafe, a strange man observes her in a way that was extremely disconcerting Julie reflects on her time with MI5 during the war ten years previ...4 stars just for the quality of Atkinson s writing But for me this wasn t as epic as A God in Ruins, and by the end the plotting was too clever for its own good, even to the point where I felt a little cheated by what had come before But still, I ll read anything this woman writes.Atkinson returns to WWII again for her newest novel but it is not a sequel to her wonderful A God in Ruins book In this one, 18 year old Juliet is hired to be be a spy for MI 5 but not a glamorous one She sits in a small apartment transcribing conversations of British citizens who think they are reporting to a German spy They are traitors but on such a small scale that it is almost laughable The story flashes between 1940 and her activities and 1950 where she has become the producer of dull Atkinson returns to WWII again for her newest novel but it is not a sequel to her wonderful A God in Ruins book In this one, 18 year old Juliet is hired to be be a spy for MI 5 but not a glamorous one She sits in a small apartment transcribing conversations of British citizens who think they are reporting to a German spy They are traitors but on such a small scale that it is almost laughable The story flashes between 1940 and her activities and 1950 where she has become th...Another great novel from Kate Atkinson, this is also the second novel I ve read this year which is about spies in London, dealing with fifth columnists and Nazi sympathisers during the Second World War the other being the equally excellent Our Friends in Berlin by Anthony Quinn Both were inspired by newly declassified documents, I believe Anyway, this novel follows Juliet Armstrong, an orphan who s recruited into MI5 in 1940 and who finds herself transcribing covertly recorded conversations Another great novel from Kate Atkinson, this is also the se...It was fine, but I never really connected with Juliet She was naive and a bit stupid and uninteresting because of it.

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  • 19 February 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 352 pages
  • 031617663X
  • Kate Atkinson
  • Transcription