WHEN WILL THERE
BE GOOD NEWS?
Kate Atkinson
‘Genius . . .
insightful, often funny, life-affirming’
Sunday Telegraph
In a quiet corner
of rural Devon, a six-year-old girl witnesses an appalling crime.
Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from
prison.
In Edinburgh,
sixteen-year-old Reggie, wise beyond her years, works as a nanny
for a G.P. But her employer has disappeared with her baby, and
Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town,
Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a
missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is a former
acquaintance – Jackson Brodie – himself on a journey that is about
to be fatally interrupted.
‘Funny, bracingly
intelligent . . . Kate Atkinson is that rarest of beasts, a
genuinely surprising novelist’
Guardian
‘An exhilarating
read. Her wry humour, sharp eye and subtle characterisation are a
constant joy’
Daily Mail
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