When Will There Be Good News?
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“The little road (they always called it ‘the lane’) snaked one way and then another, so that you couldn’t see anything ahead of you. They had to keep the dog on the lead and stay close to the hedges in case a car ‘came out of nowhere’. Jessica was the eldest so she was the one who always got to hold the dog’s lead. She spent a lot of her time training the dog, ‘Heel!’ and ‘Sit!’ and ‘Come!’ Their mother said she wished Jessica was as obedient as the dog. Jessica was always the one who was in charge. Their mother said to Joanna, ‘It’s all right to have a mind of your own, you know. You should stick up for yourself, think for yourself,’ but Joanna didn’t want to think for herself.”
We all ask the same question at some point in our lives; when will there be good news? And it is no exception in Kate Atkinson’s book When Will There Be Good News?
In a quiet corner of rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime, Andrew Decker, is released from prison.
In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie, wise beyond her years, works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr. Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried.
Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, David Needler, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend–Jackson Brodie–himself on a journey that is about to be fatally interrupted.
Well look whose back private investigator Jackson Brodie. How exciting is this? I picked up the book and couldn’t put it down. Atkinson has given us a book with plots that twist and turn, her characters are believable and she has kept up the promise of a good read. Grab a copy today and start reading.
Happy Reading
Sarah