One Good Turn

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The second Jackson Brodie novel (after Case Histories)
: literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect.

As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. They are all looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.

'An absolute joy to read...the pleasure of One Good Turn lies in the ride, in Atkinson's wry, unvanquished characters, her swooping, savvy, sarcastic prose and authorial joie de vivre' Guardian

© Kate Atkinson 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2015

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Another highly entertaining and engrossing Jackson Brodie novel. The various strands of the mystery plot coalesce in a slightly absurd but satisfying way at the end but the real joy of Kate Atkinson's writing is in the interior monologues of her characters - their fantasies, longings, prejudices and fears - so relatable and at times hilarious - all those things we think but do not dare to speak.
jackdor 25/06/2024

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