Started Early, Took My DogWith Dickensian brilliance, Kate Atkinson creates plots peopled with unlikely heroes and villains. It's a day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. 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. Witness to Tracy's Faustian 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. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished. |
Contents
Section 1 | 7 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 13 |
Section 4 | 16 |
Section 5 | 95 |
Section 6 | 99 |
Section 7 | 100 |
Section 8 | 113 |
Section 12 | 211 |
Section 13 | 241 |
Section 14 | 265 |
Section 15 | 285 |
Section 16 | 307 |
Section 17 | 310 |
Section 18 | 335 |
Section 19 | 346 |
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