![]() ![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. 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. ![]() Its plot however is not fast-moving and may not hold everyone’s interest over its 496 pages. Atkinson presents unique and sometimes cryptic slants on common themes and interesting trains of thought that I found intriguing. It oozes intelligence and complexity and has a moral conscience. A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. I really enjoyed Atkinson’s Started Early, Took My Dog. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished. Started Early, Took My Dog is a 2010 novel by English writer Kate Atkinson named after the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name. Witnesses 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. A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |