- Mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Missing persons, Fiction
On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever...On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and spare.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Kate Atkinson
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 388
- Publisher
- Transworld, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown and Co.
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316012836
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Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Besides novels, she has penned one play and a collection of short stories.
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