


Get help and learn more about the design. Transcription by Kate Atkinson is published by Doubleday (20). Atkinson loves her research, but she doesnt need much help concocting original stories that resemble no one elses and take the breath away. This is true of Transcription most immediately on the level of technology. Transcription is certainly a book that is difficult to put down. I plan to use the panic room if things get worse. Our current world situation is proof of that myth.

"Roughly speaking, for everything that could be considered an historical fact in this book, I made something up," writes Atkinson in an author's note at the end of Transcription. Let it be said again that the endlessly devious Atkinson (Life After Life, Case Histories) knows how to start a book with a bang. The microphones are muddy, no more or less attuned to human speech than to things like rustling paper, and her transcripts are full of question marks, gaps, misheard words. In 1950, Juliet was a producer for children's programming at the BBC. That girl, transmuted by bereavement, had gone. 'How vehemently most novelists will wish to produce a masterpiece as good' Telegraph _ Transcription Paperback edition by Kate Atkinson And before you know it Transcription has turned from a wartime spy yarn into a fuguelike meditation on the fungibility of female identity. Alas, it still sits unread, but when Atkinson's new novel Transcription a bit of a World War II espionage. Perry gave Juliet another mission, to pretend to be a young woman named Iris Carter-Jenkins in order to get close to another known Nazi sympathizer, Mrs. The work, like most such work, seems vital at first but proves to be largely mundane. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy.
