- Mystery, Novelists, Policewomen, Millionaires
Awards BCA Crime Thriller of the Year Best Novel (nominee)
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Contemporary, meticulous, spare and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Kate Atkinson
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 418
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio, Sound Library, Doubleday, London
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781597224628
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“He was lost.”
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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