If you'd like to read more of Kate Atkinson, her debut was Behind the Scenes at the Museum. I'd like to thank the publishers for making the digital copy of the book available to me. I'll return to both the book and the audio version again. It was rather like listening to a play with added commentary. Bell was a real pleasure to listen to and has an excellent range of voices, both male and female and I was never in any doubt as to which character was speaking. There was the odd mishit with names of places in the Leeds area, but that's me being very picky. Who would have thought that trying to locate details of the birth parents of a woman living in New Zealand could be so difficult?Īs well as reading the book I listened to an audio download (which I bought myself) narrated by Nicholas Bell. Knocking out the owner isn't the usual way of doing this, but on this occasion it worked just fine and the dog seems more than happy with his new master, who will come to appreciate the benefits. Tracy Waterhouse might have acquired Courtney, but Brodie acquires a dog. But there's a sense of a new beginning too. I expected that the first part of the book would require concentration to grasp the full cast of characters and that it was likely that there would be jumps in time, but once you've accommodated all this you'll have people in your mind whom you know as intimately as many of your friends.
I know that there will be laugh-out-loud moments and that the plot will be intricate, constructed much in the way of a complex jigsaw, with every piece being important to the overall picture. It soothes my brain and makes me smile with delight. I read Kate Atkinson for her exquisite writing. He should have married Louise - but she's now married to someone else. The money doesn't worry Jackson - it was an unlooked-for inheritance - and if he was honest, he knows that he should never have married Tessa.
One was Tilly, an ageing actress teetering on the edge of dementia, and Jackson Brodie, supposedly in search of someone else's roots, but actually looking for somewhere to live and for the wife who seems to have absconded with most of his money. She might have thought that the transaction to purchase Courtney went unnoticed, but there were witnesses to what happened.
The difficulty of a purchase like this is knowing what to do next and Tracy's humdrum life is replaced with one of stress, fear and an overwhelming love for four-year-old Courtney. Seeing a known prostitute dragging a toddler through the shopping mall whilst cursing at her, Waterhouse followed the woman and bought the girl for £3000. I guess that most of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the Merrion Centre in Leeds, blew most people's ideas of an impulse purchase out of the water one morning. Summary: The fourth book in the Jackson Brodie series will read as a standalone, but why would you wnat to? Start at the beginning and give yourself a treat
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