It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country’s most exceptional writers. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. 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. In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. 'An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' Observer THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BY AWARD WINNER KATE ATKINSON The magnificent new novel by the bestselling and award-winning Kate Atkinson: 'Masterpiece' - Telegraph 'Pageturner' - Evening Standard 'Wise, funny and paced like a thriller' - Observer
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