Kate Atkinson is acclaimed author for many reasons. There’s also a time jump to the 1950s when she’s working on educational radio programs for the BBC and her past comes back to the haunt her. Juliet transcribes the secretly recorded conversations with an undercover MI5 agent named Godfrey Toby. Her job is to monitor the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers. The story follows Juliet Armstrong, who was recruited when she was 18 to join the British Secret Service during WWII. While Transcription isn’t quite as complicated in structure and subject matter, there’s still jumps in time, lots of characters and plenty of deception (including a big one revealed at the very end). For instance, in her highly-acclaimed novel Life After Life, the unexpected story structure is somewhat similar to the movie Groundhog Day where the protagonist must re-live her life over and over until she accomplishes a seemingly impossible task. If you’ve read any of Atkinson’s work in the past, you know she tends to write in a complicated structure.
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