***** 'Sheer genius, with the characteristic thread of humour. ***** 'An intelligently written, gripping book with characters you fall in love with.' ***** 'A glorious tapestry of storytelling.' Old secrets and new lies intersect in this breathtaking new literary crime novel, both sharply funny and achingly sad, by one of the most dazzling and surprising writers at work today. She is best known for creating the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series Case Histories.
Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, seems straightforward, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into a sinister network-and back into the path of someone from his past. Welcome to the official website of Kate Atkinson MBE, writer of novels, plays and short stories. It's a picturesque setting, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido, both at the discretion of his former partner Julia. 'Laced with Atkinson's sharp, dry humour, and one of the joys of the Brodie novels has always been that they are so funny.' Observer
'Like all good detectives, he is a hero for men and women alike.' The Times It's a masterclass in brilliant writing and whether you've read the earlier books in the series or not, you'll enjoy it.' Independent That is what Fiction means.” A literary champion of justice, she lines up a colourful cast of unlikely good guys: glamorous Crystal, the kind-hearted, secretly traumatised second wife of a shady millionaire businessman Vince, the down-on-his-luck golfing partner of the Three Musketeers, whose life declines from bad to worse Reggie, a returnee from previous yarns who has grown up into a literature-quoting copper and Bunny Hopps, an elderly drag artist ensconced for the summer season at a local theatre.'The stand-out read of the summer. Her Brodie novels recall a line from “The Importance of Being Earnest”: “The good end happily, the bad unhappily.
In the depiction of this despicable business, as in all Ms Atkinson’s fiction, she supplies gruesome discoveries and a strong helping of violence, all nevertheless relayed with a deft and witty touch. Posing as a recruitment agency for the British hospitality sector, they lure in young women from eastern Europe to the Philippines with the promise of lucrative hotel jobs, only to imprison them in Silver Birches, a hideaway from hell, where they are forcibly injected with drugs before being sold on. “Big Sky” duly features a sex-trafficking and paedophile ring set up by a grim trio who refer to themselves as the Three Musketeers. Ms Atkinson has been on the trail of lost children (particularly girls) since her very first novel, “Behind the Scenes at the Museum”, published in 1995.
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