Started Early, Took My Dog

A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That 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. Witnesses to Tracy's outrageous 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. Kate Atkinson dovetails and counterpoints her plots with Dickensian brilliance in a tale peopled with unlikely heroes and villains . Started Early, Took My Dog is freighted with wit, wisdom and a fierce moral intelligence. It confirms Kate Atkinson's position as one of the great writers of our time.

ISBN 0552772461   Pages 496 ISBN13 9780552772464 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 333 Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd   Published in London Imprint Black Swan   Height (mm) 198 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 127 Publication date 17 Feb 2011   Spine width (mm) 29 DEWEY 823.914   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

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