He reads as if he doesn't understand the story, just recites words. " I have loved all the previous audiobooks in this series, however, this reader is no where near as good as all the readers of the previous books. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.
Atkinson fans will love it, and it's sure to earn her new devotees.” “Kate Atkinson has done it again: created an extremely readable mystery filled with innuendo, all kinds of literary references and lovable characters…She takes the reader right inside her characters’ brains…Started Early, Took My Dog is filled with wit, humor, surprising coincidences, and twists and turns. “The plot is as pleasingly intricate as ever and just as heavily populated with beautifully summed up characters…Atkinson tells us what’s going on with an imagination that keeps our minds reeling and our jaws dropping.” “An irrepressible exuberance shines throughout…Folds past and present together with Atkinson’s customary flair…Extraordinary combination of wit, plain-speaking, tenderness, and control.” “Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious, panoramic work, full of excitement, color and compassion.” “Atkinson skillfully weaves…story lines together, creating an almost melancholy tale about the passage of time and the ripple effect of consequences of past acts…Atkinson’s prose is so lovely, with startlingly keen observations and wit, even those uninterested in the solving of various whodunits will be spellbound.” And there's a lovely little cameo, for want want of a better term, from actual the plot of her previous novel, 'When Where There Be Good News'. I just love that Brodie liberates a neglected dog at the very same time that Tracy liberates a neglected child, thus setting the whole novel in motion. Other writers would shy away from some of the extraordinarily coincidental moments she dares to plot into her stories, and very likely the weird parallels in the various subplots, too, but in sublime combination, these elements truly MAKE her books. But I will rave about this: I love her unapologetic use of coincidence. And there's little I can rave about her work that hasn't been raved about by others before me. It confirms Kate Atkinson’s position as one of the great writers of our time. Started Early, Took My Dog is freighted with wit, wisdom, and a fierce moral intelligence. All three characters learn that the past is never history. 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.
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. It’s a day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse-until she makes a shocking impulse purchase.
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