She could be free of it now.” She is done with being a librarian and tired of being called “sensible,” and she’s looking for a little excitement. Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new millionaire, is among the bystanders. She had lived beneath the shadow of the war for long enough. But “she was not yet thirty, she reminded herself. About the Book Three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways in the latest novel from Kate Atkinson, the critically acclaimed author. With him is Gwendolen Kelling of York, a dauntless veteran war nurse, now orphaned and alone in the world. … She knew that her health would not survive incarceration a second time.”Īmong the festive crowd watching Nellie emerge from prison is Scotland Yard Detective Chief Inspector John Frobisher, a stoic cop and secret romantic who still misses the Shropshire of his boyhood. “For perhaps the first time in her life she was wearying of the relentless drive required to keep their lives thrusting forward. She must prepare.” She needs a plan of succession, a plan to keep her six grown children busy, solvent and out of the nick. Nellie’s imprisonment has worn her down, though, and “she feared it would not be long before she was worm food. Laurie entered the comic book world when she co-starred opposite Michael. Kate Atkinson’s "Shrines of Gaiety" is set in London in 1926, on the louche fringes of booze-soaked Soho. as Jackson Brodie in the award-winning PBS show CASE HISTORIES and as.
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