GODFREY commented on BETTY’S cold (resulting in an unfortunate loss of her voice). Social chat and commenting on the weather. Occasionally chilling in their mundane bigotry, hatred and casual espousal of violence.ġ8.00 Arrival. Rather than rounding them up and imprisoning them, the plan was to feed them a fake deep cover Gestapo agent in the form of Godfrey Toby – letting them plot and plan and conspire with him, safely within a “walled garden”, incriminating themselves and others with incessant talk and chatter, gossip and bigotry.Īnd Juliet’s job? To transcribe their conversations which are, for the most part, deeply dull and tedious. Here, she conjures up Juliet, a young orphan summoned to an interview at the Secret Service in 1940 and “the summons was on government notepaper so she supposed she would have to obey it.” A clerical position in MI5 – this is no James Bond novel! – awaits her and she is quickly whisked into Peregrine (“Call me Perry”) Gibbons work of containing Fifth columnist Nazi sympathisers in Britain. Whether it be detective fiction in the Jackson Brodie series or literary fantasy masterpieces in Live After Life, Atkinson is sublime! Human and emotional, thoughtful and smart at the same time. Kate Atkinson is such a pleasure to read! “But then, what constituted real? Wasn’t everything, even this life itself, just a game of deception?” “The world is a comedy to those that think a tragedy to those that feel,”
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