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’
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