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Life After Life (2013)
by Kate Atkinson
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks... (learn more about this book)
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Jackson Brodie Series: Book 4Started Early, Took My Dog (2011)
by Kate Atkinson
Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective-a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other-or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision... (learn more about this book)
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Jackson Brodie Series: Book 3When Will There Be Good News? (2008)
by Kate Atkinson
On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly... (learn more about this book)
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Jackson Brodie Series: Book 2One Good Turn (2006)
by Kate Atkinson
Two years after the events of Case Histories left him a retired millionaire, former detective Jackson Brodie has followed Julia, his occasional girlfriend and former client, to Edinburgh for its famous summer arts festival. But when he watches a man brutally attacked in a traffic jam--the... (learn more about this book)
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Jackson Brodie Series: Book 1Case Histories (2004)
by Kate Atkinson
Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit... (learn more about this book)
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Not the End of the World (2003)
by Kate Atkinson
Arthur is a precocious and inquisitive 8-year-old boy whose mother is a B-list celebrity more concerned with the state of her bank account than with her son's development. With a new baby on the way, Arthur's mother hires--or is she hired by?--an enigmatic young nanny named Missy, who takes... (learn more about this book)
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Emotionally Weird (2000)
by Kate Atkinson
A thoroughly original and hilarious new novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum On a weather-beaten island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in the large, mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each... (learn more about this book)
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995)
by Kate Atkinson
From the moment Ruby Lennox announces her own conception ("I exist!"), it is clear that she is a narrator who will leave no stone unturned in her account of family life above a pet shop in England. Not content simply to describe her own circumstances, Ruby investigates the lives of the women in... (learn more about this book)
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Abandonment
by Kate Atkinson
Elizabeth, forty-something, childless, recently separated, just wants to be alone. She's moved into a converted Victorian mansion, alive with history, woodworm and dry rot. But worse than that, she's besieged by invaders of the human kind. Her best friend, her sister, their mother, the builder... (learn more about this book)
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Human Croquet
by Kate Atkinson
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Part fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this novel tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a girl growing up in Lythe, a typical 1960s British suburb. But Lythe was once the heart of an Elizabethan feudal estate and home to a young English... (learn more about this book)
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