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When will there be good news book6/5/2023 ![]() The scene abruptly shifts to Yorkshire, where Jackson Brodie seems to be pursuing an investigation. He kills the mother, eldest daughter, infant son, and even the dog only six-year-old Joanna Mason manages to run away, to be found hours later by police in a field of wheat. The novel opens with a grim chapter in which a knife-wielding lunatic attacks a family strolling down a country lane in Devon. Her iconoclasm may at first disconcert readers expecting conventional narrative development. ![]() ![]() When Will There Be Good News? is her third book featuring police-officer-turned-private-eye Jackson Brodie, and Atkinson initially seems to flout every genre requirement but in the end comes through with a series of dazzling twists of plot (and fate) that not only tell us whodunit but remind us that this risk-taking author never does what’s expected. Awful events befall an awful lot of people in British author Kate Atkinson’s seventh novel-which makes the title both darkly appropriate and robustly ironic in a manner that perfectly suits this marvelous author’s sui generis style. ![]()
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