One Good Turn
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(Jackson Brodie).
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#2 in the Series: Jackson Brodie
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Kate Atkinson
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Jason Isaacs (Read by)
Brought to you by Penguin.
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident 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 suspect.
With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self.
Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.
©Kate Atkinson 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 30/07/2020
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ISBN: 9781473576483
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RRP: £13.00
Reviews
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"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
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"Atkinson is frequently very funny...while the tone stays light, the plot continues to darken....manages to be that rarest of things - a good literary novel and a cracking holiday read."
Observer
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"It doesn't really matter in which genre Atkinson chooses to write. Her subject is always the irrecoverable loss of love and how best to continue living once you have glumly recognised that "That was what the world was like, things improved but they didn't get better." Her gift is in presenting this unnerving and subversive philosophy as a dazzling form of entertainment."
Sunday Times
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"Atkinson, while having fun with the murder-mystery genre, slyly slips us a muted tragedy."
Sunday Telegraph
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"High suspense and rattling pace...charged with adrenalin and a spry humour."
Financial Times
