Every morning the sun was up long before they were, making a mockery of the flimsy summer curtains that hung limply at their bedroom windows, a sun already hot and sticky with promise before Olivia even opened her eyes. "Triumphant…Her best book yet…A tragi-comedy for our times" * Sunday Telegraph * "Her best book yet, an astonishingly complex and moving literary detective story that made me sob but also snort with laughter.HOW LUCKY WERE THEY? A HEAT WAVE IN THE MIDDLE of the school holidays, exactly where it belonged. It is a life-affirming work of profound insight and intelligence.(c)Kate Atkinson 2004 (P) Penguin Audio 2020 Reviews of Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie) Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life is brought sharply into focus.Ingeniously plotted, full of suspense and heartbreak, CASE HISTORIES is a feat of bravura storytelling that conveys the mysteries of life, its inanities and its hilarities. He is at that dangerous age when men suddenly notice that they’re going to die eventually, inevitably, and there isn’t a damn thing they can do about it. He is forty-five but feels much, much older. A nurse has lost her niece a widow, her cats.Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a failed marriage to prove it.
Two spinster sisters make a shocking find.
His days are full of people clamouring for answers and explanations. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet – Lost on the left, Found on the right – and the two never seem to balance. Yet despite everything he’d seen and done, inside Jackson there remained a belief – a small, battered and bruised belief – that his job was to help people be good rather than punish them for being bad.’Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. He was used to being a voyeur, the outsider looking in, and nothing, but nothing, that anyone did surprised him any more. Home > Fiction from Scotland > Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie) Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie) By (author) Kate Atkinson Read by Jason Isaacsīrought to you by Penguin.’Investigating other people’s tragedies and cock-ups and misfortunes was all he knew.
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