Best Books By Kate Atkinson
List of 5 best books written by Kate Atkinson. Check out the booklist.
1. Case Histories
An astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter. It’s the sort of novel you have to start rereading the minute you’ve finished it’ guardian the first Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of big sky and Transcription.
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2. Life After Life
The structure of this novel is unusual. It loops back on itself to describe possible alternate fates and realities for Ursula Todd. The book begins with an adult Ursula assassinating Hitler, and then flips back to Ursula’s birth, where she is stillborn because her umbilical cord is wrapped around her neck. Further loops of her life have her being born healthy and facing death or near-death situations at some point in her life, at which point the novel loops back. The theme of the book is second chances for the dead and the near-dead, evidenced by a toddler Ursula who is swept away by the ocean and then reappears later in the narrative.
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3. Big Sky
A brilliant new literary crime novel from number one bestseller Kate Atkinson: Jackson Brodie makes a high anticipated return Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an ageing Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It’s picturesque, but there’s something darker lurking behind the scenes.
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4. Behind The Scenes At The Museum
Little short of a masterpiece…Fizzing with wit and energy, Kate Atkinson’s hilarious novel made me laugh and cry’ Daily Mail Twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Kate Atkinson’s brilliant and unforgettable first novel, which won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize.
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5. Transcription
Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country’s most exceptional writers.
