SUMMARY: Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective-a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other-or so decides Tracy, in a snap
Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel: Novel
β Scribed by Kate Atkinson
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada;Little, Brown and Co
- Year
- 2010;2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1409095428
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β¦ Synopsis
'crime Has Given Atkinson The Freedom To Write An Ambitious, Panoramic Work, Full Of Excitement, Colour And Compassion' Sunday Times The Fourth Jackson Brodie Novel: Literary Crime From The Prizewinning Number-one Bestselling Author Of Big Sky And Transcription. A Day Like Any Other For Security Chief Tracy Waterhouse, Until She Makes A Shocking Impulse Purchase. That One Moment Of Madness Is All It Takes For Tracy's Humdrum World To Be Turned Upside Down, The Tedium Of Everyday Life Replaced By Fear And Danger At Every Turn. Witnesses To Tracy's Outrageous Exchange In The Merrion Centre In Leeds Are Tilly, An Elderly Actress Teetering On The Brink Of Her Own Disaster, And Jackson Brodie, Who Has Returned To His Home County In Search Of Someone Else's Roots. All Three Characters Learn That The Past Is Never History And That No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.
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