`AN UNAPOLOGETIC NOVEL OF IDEAS WHICH IS ALSO WISE, FUNNY & PACED LIKE A THRILLER`
- OBSERVER* THE MAGNIFICENT NEW NOVEL BY AWARD-WINNER KATE ATKINSON * In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings & goings of British Fascist sympathisers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious & terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, & she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. Transcription is a work of rare depth & texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit & empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country’s most exceptional writers.`HOW VEHEMENTLY MOST NOVELISTS WILL WISH TO PRODUCE A MASTERPIECE AS GOOD`
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