Started Early, Took My Dog: (Jackson Brodie) (Jackson Brodie, 4)
by Atkinson, Kate
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0552772461
- ISBN 13
- 9780552772464
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KATE ATKINSON's most recent novel, When Will There Be Good News? , was voted Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year. After Case Histories and One Good Turn , it was her third novel to feature the former private detective Jackson Brodie, who makes a welcome return in Started Early, Took My Dog . She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize for her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum , and has been a critically-acclaimed internationally-bestselling author ever since.
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Started Early, Took My Dog is the fourth book in the Jackson Brodie series by popular British author, Kate Atkinson. Set some two years after When Will There Be Good News, Jackson is wandering around England, looking for his fake wife, Tessa, and researching the real parents of a New Zealand adoptee, Hope McMaster. At the same time, ex-cop Tracy Waterhouse finds herself buying a toddler from a prostitute, while ageing actress Tilly Squires slowly sinks into dementia. As Jackson follows leads to dead ends, he finds a doppelganger is treading the same paths, and stumbles into a thirty-year-old crime. This instalment has a great cast of characters, including crooked cops, retired social workers, prostitutes, actors, children and a dog. Jackson manages to rescue a dog, be followed, beaten up, have his dog bugged, his car stolen and end up hogtied in a rubbish skip. As always, the dialogue is snappy and Atkinson’s strength is her characters’ inner monologues: “Jackson tried to remember why but the tiny people who resentfully ran his memory these days (fetching and carrying folders, checking the contents against index cards, filing them away in boxes that were then placed on endless rows of grey metal Dexion shelving never to be found again) had, in an all too frequent occurrence, mislaid that particular piece of information” and “Ravaged by acne, if you knew Braille you could probably have read his face” and “Schrodinger, whoever he was, and his cat, and anyone else that felt like it, had all climbed inside Pandora’s box and were dining on a can of worms”. There are lots of literary quotes, misquotes, bits of poetry and jokes. The plot, as always, is original and keeps twisting and turning to the very end. While it is not essential to have read the earlier books of this series, this book does contain spoilers for earlier books, so it doesn’t hurt to read them in order. Once again, Atkinson provides a brilliant read and one can only hope there will be more of Jackson Brodie.
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- World of Books Ltd (GB)
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- Title
- Started Early, Took My Dog: (Jackson Brodie) (Jackson Brodie, 4)
- Author
- Atkinson, Kate
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 31
- ISBN 10
- 0552772461
- ISBN 13
- 9780552772464
- Publisher
- Black Swan Books, Limited
- Place of Publication
- Uk
- This edition first published
- 2011
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