TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atkinson,Kate 
TI  - TRANSCRIPTION
SN  - 9780857525895
U1  - F 
PY  - 2018////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Doubleday 
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Great Britain. -- MI5 -- Officials and employees -- Fiction
KW  - Women radio producers and directors -- Fiction
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Thrillers Fiction
KW  - Spy fiction
KW  - Spy stories
KW  - Suspense fiction
N1  - The magnificent new novel by the bestselling and award-winning Kate Atkinson, a major publishing event.

‘Think of it as an adventure, Perry had said right at the beginning of all this. And it had seemed like one. A bit of a lark, she had thought. A Girls’ Own adventure.’

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. 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. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever.

Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.

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
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