6/10/2023 0 Comments Kate atkinson transcription review![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters from seven decades ago say things that seem unnervingly contemporary. Addressed to Juliet, the notes warn that “you will pay for what you did. Although a deeply researched historical novel, Transcription has much to say about the current age, when a different kind of Cold War spreads its chill and white supremacists are emboldened to march through the streets. It s a historical fiction story with some mystery and even humor. ![]() Adding to the weirdness are those anonymous notes that someone has begun dropping off at the BBC. Transcription by kate atkinson is a british spy novel full of unexpected twists and turns. She senses she is being followed: A man with a pockmarked face and a woman wearing a headscarf garishly decorated with parrots keep popping up. Scattered in between are long sections of the story set in 1950, when Juliet is employed by BBC radio as a producer of educational programs with titles such as the “Explorers’ Club” and “English for the Under-Nines.” But all is not well in Juliet’s placid and somewhat dull postwar world. The very first page of “Transcription” opens on Juliet’s death in 1981 - a death we witness with different emotions when we return to the scene briefly at the very end of the novel. Atkinson’s many fans know better than to expect a straightforward chronological narrative from her instead, she prefers to jump around, intensifying the poignancy of her characters’ lives by giving her readers godlike glimpses of how they will eventually turn out. Juliet Armstrong, the protagonist of Kate Atkinson’s new novel, Transcription, is 18 in 1940. ![]()
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