WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARD: Kate Atkinson's number one Sunday Times bestseller, even more brilliant and ambitious than Life After Life.
Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. Her most recent novel, Shrines of Gaiety, set in the aftermath of the First World War, is a Sunday Times bestseller. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prize-winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life, an acclaimed 2022 BBC TV series, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription. Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Triumphant...such a dazzling read...Atkinson gives Teddy's wartime
experiences the full treatment in a series of thrilling set pieces.
Even more impressive,though, is her ability to invest the more
everday events with a similar grandeur...almost as innovative as
Atkinson's technique in Life After Life - a possibly more authentic
as an expression of how it feels to be alive...it ends on one of
the most devastating twists in recent fiction...it adds a further
level of overwhelming poignancy to an already extraordinarily
affecting book.
*Daily Telegraph*
This is a novel about war and the shadow it casts even over
generations who have never known it, but it is also a novel about
fiction...this is a novel that cares deeply about its characters
and about the purpose of fiction in making sense of our collective
past. A God in Ruins, together with its predecessor, is Atkinson's
finest work, and confirmation that her genre-defying writing
continues to surpise and dazzle.
*Observer*
With A God in Ruins she, once again, proves herself to be a writer
of considerable talent. Her command of structure is
extraordinary...She writes with terrific compassion for her
characters...also shows off a brilliantly brittle sense of humour
that on several occasions made me laugh out loud...to my mind, A
God in Ruins stands as an equally magnificent achievement.
*Independent on Sunday*
Horribly funny...every page has some vividly original phrase...But
the tour de force is her treatment of Teddy’s experience as a
bomber pilot, recreated as memorably as the Blitz scenes in Life
After Life... nothing can quite account for the imaginative leaps
she has made...nailbiting...a really affecting memorial to the huge
numbers of bomber crew who died.
*Standard*
Better than most fiction you'll read this year...Atkinson's prose
is as bright as gunfire in the Second World War sections...I can't
think of any writer to match her ability to grasp a period in the
past. No, not even you, Booker-winning Hilary Mantel.
*The Times*
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