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On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever ...
On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound ...
At the end of a long day, sixteen-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared for an emergency ...
These three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, the critically acclaimed author who Harlan Coben calls "an absolute must-read."
cbl_tn: The novels have a similar tone. Both have private investigators who are hospitalized with memory lapses, and both have bright, engaging teenage characters readers will root for.
Eine junge Frau verschwindet, die als Kind einen entsetzlichen Mord miterleben musste- just in dem Moment. als dieser Mörder nach 30 Jahren wieder freikommt. Die einzige, die sich Sorgen macht, ist ihre Babysitterin Reggie. Reggie ist wirklich ein starker Charakter. Sie trägt das gnze Buch. Ein sechzehnjähriges Mädchen, das viel zu viel Schlimmes erlebt. Überhaupt, Schlimmes: Es ist natürlich in keinster Weise noch glaubhaft, was den Charakteren alles passiert. Dennoch kann man nicht aufhören zu lesen. Ich fand auch nicht, dass das hier im eigentlichen Sinn ein Krimi ist. Aber man mag Reggie und folgt ihr gern. ( )
This is a not very fast moving crime story, but it takes the more care in giving its characters the depth so sorely missing in most crime novels. Good reading, sometimes drily funny, sometimes just plain honest. ( )
Fact: Atkinson doesn’t write typical crime novels, but literary hybrids. ... Despite an arresting first chapter, what seems of most interest to Atkinson isn’t the solving of crimes, but the solving of the problem of being alive. ... the absence of sustained suspense begins to fray our connection to the characters. Sensing perhaps that she’s lollygagging, Atkinson sprints for the last 75 pages, delivering a rushed, overly neat ending that, while cleanly tying up the big threads, leaves many questions about the characters and their futures unanswered.
A third appearance for former police investigator and private detective Jackson Brodie in this psychologically astute thriller from Atkinson (One Good Turn, 2006, etc.). ... Like the most riveting BBC mystery, in which understated, deadpan intelligence illuminates characters’ inner lives within a convoluted plot.
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'We never know we go, - when we are going We jest and shut the door; Fate following behind us bolts it, And we accost no more'
Emily Dickinson
Widmung
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For Dave and Maureen - thanks for many good times, the best is yet to come
Erste Worte
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The heat rising up from the tarmac seemed to get trapped between the thick hedges that towered above their heads like battlements.
Zitate
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"A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen"
"I'm a goddess to him [her baby son] now," Dr Hunter laughed, "but one day I'll be the annoying old woman who wants to be taken to the supermarket".
What was new was a note, stuck on the door with chewing gum, that read, "Reggie Chase -- you cant hide from us". No apostrophe. ... In the shower room ... the walls had been spray-painted with the words, "Your dead". ... Who was "us"? Who were these people who didn't know how to use an apostrophe?
Louise had been there, been there with Archie when he was little, at the empty play parks and deserted duck ponds, suddenly aware of the nutter's sloping walk, his shifting gaze. Don't make eye contact. Walk past briskly, don't draw attention to yourself. Somewhere, in some Utopian nowhere, women walked without fear. Louise would sure like to see that place.
Peter gave her a pad of paper and a pen and told her to write a note ... She wrote with the Biro, "Please help us. We don't want to die." ... she jammed the pen into his eyeball as hard as she could. It surprised her how far it went in.
Letzte Worte
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And they both clapped their hands and the baby laughed and clapped his hands too.
On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever ...
On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly hears a shocking sound ...
At the end of a long day, sixteen-year-old Reggie is looking forward to watching a little TV. Then a terrifying noise shatters her peaceful evening. Luckily, Reggie makes it a point to be prepared for an emergency ...
These three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, the critically acclaimed author who Harlan Coben calls "an absolute must-read."
Reggie ist wirklich ein starker Charakter. Sie trägt das gnze Buch. Ein sechzehnjähriges Mädchen, das viel zu viel Schlimmes erlebt.
Überhaupt, Schlimmes: Es ist natürlich in keinster Weise noch glaubhaft, was den Charakteren alles passiert. Dennoch kann man nicht aufhören zu lesen. Ich fand auch nicht, dass das hier im eigentlichen Sinn ein Krimi ist.
Aber man mag Reggie und folgt ihr gern. ( )