Started Early, Took My Dog

Started Early, Took My Dog

(Jackson Brodie)

Summary

Started Early, Took My Dog is the fourth novel in the bestselling sequence that started with Case Histories. It again features the beguiling former detective Jackson Brodie, who was also seen in the One Good Turn and When Will There Be Good News?, winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year.

About the author

Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. Her most recent novel, Shrines of Gaiety, set in the aftermath of the First World War, is a Sunday Times bestseller. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prize-winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life, an acclaimed 2022 BBC TV series, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription. Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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