![]() It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of the best writers of our time. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. The novel has an unusual structure, repeatedly looping back in time to describe alternative possible lives for its central character, Ursula Todd, who is born on 11 February 1910 to an upper-middle-class family near Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire.In the first version, she is strangled by her umbilical cord and stillborn. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat.Ī bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. ![]() Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying.īut after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. ![]() ISBN-13: 9780316176637 Summary A thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of Life After Life In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Transcription Kate Atkinson, 2018 Little, Brown and Company 352 pp. ![]() A thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of Life After Life ![]()
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