![]() ![]() ![]() However, he goes missing after she has kept him safe overnight, and Juliet can’t shake the feeling that she’s being watched. ![]() Not knowing his actual name, she does know that his codename is ‘flamingo’. She is asked to look after a man overnight before he is moved onwards. In the 1950s Juliet still has contacts in Intelligence agencies, who occasionally use her as a safe house. From this role, she is further drawn into espionage as she is asked to infiltrate a different right wing group acting against the British war efforts. Working for MI5 she begins by typing the transcripts of conversations between an agent and a group of Nazi sympathisers who were looking to assist the German invasion of Britain. ![]() Working for the BBC in the 1950s producing childrens’ educational radio shows, Juliet can’t quite shake off her former life as a spy in World War 2. Transcription tells the story of Juliet Armstrong, jumping back and forth between World War 2 and the 1950s. When I read the plot summary of Transcription, also by Kate Atkinson, I knew this was a book that I wanted to read. It was beautifully written and the kind of story that I didn’t want to end. Last year, I read the amazing Life After Life by Kate Atkinson it’s stayed in my memory for a long time (not least because several chapters deal with the Spanish Influenza and the way in which chains of transmission made a difference to the protagonists life: going through a pandemic means those sections have remained vividly in my mind). ![]()
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