Case Histories
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Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a failed marriage to prove it. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, he attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected...
"Her best book yet, an astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughterIt's the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you've finished it" * Guardian *
"Sharp humour, together with a number of unexpected twists makes this a typically pacey and intelligent read" * Daily Mail *
"A greedy feast of a story by a masterful author...A profound, exciting and lingering read" * Daily Express *
"Triumphant...Her best book yet...A tragi-comedy for our times" * Sunday Telegraph *
"To read it is to enter a hall of mirrors...Part complex family drama, part mystery, it winds up having more depth and vividness than ordinary thrillers and more thrills than ordinary fiction...A wonderfully tricky book" * New York Times *
"Sharp humour, together with a number of unexpected twists makes this a typically pacey and intelligent read" * Daily Mail *
"A greedy feast of a story by a masterful author...A profound, exciting and lingering read" * Daily Express *
"Triumphant...Her best book yet...A tragi-comedy for our times" * Sunday Telegraph *
"To read it is to enter a hall of mirrors...Part complex family drama, part mystery, it winds up having more depth and vividness than ordinary thrillers and more thrills than ordinary fiction...A wonderfully tricky book" * New York Times *
Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her four bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. Her 2013 novel Life After Life won the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Prize, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize, voted Book of the Year for the independent booksellers associations on both sides of the Atlantic. It also won the Costa Novel Award, as did her new novel A God in Ruins (2015). She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List, and was voted Waterstones UK Author of the Year at the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| EAN | 9781846572388 |
| Title | Case Histories |
| Release date | 2010-03-04 |
| Format | Abridged Audiobook |
| Studio | Audiobooks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| By (author) | Kate Atkinson |
| Read by | Jason Isaacs |