![]() ![]() One of the many things I admired about her writing is the depiction of MI5 and the operations carried out by Juliet and her superiors. But that’s not a reason to abandon this novel. ![]() ![]() I actually found it a little difficult to get into in the beginning. Transcription is not a page-turner at any stretch. She can’t escape the repercussions of her work in espionage and is pulled back into the life she left behind. ![]() MI5 continues to spy on its enemies and Juliet realizes that she will never really be free from it. The war is over but the aftermath still exists. The narration now shifts to 1950s and we see Juliet working as a producer in BBC. The walls of the flat are bugged with microphones and Juliet’s work is to listen and transcribe conversations between a MI5 agent and the suspected ring of Nazi sympathizers. The British Intelligence are running a low-level operation out of two flats to spy on Nazi sympathizers in Britain. Juliet Armstrong is eighteen years old when she is recruited by MI5. This novel is an interesting blend of historical fiction and espionage. I do love historical fiction and Transcription takes you into the 1940s-50s Britain when it was in the grip of World War II. I found it a little difficult to get into but once I got the novel’s pace it was a delightful experience. Kate Atkinson’s Transcription is quintessentially British in tone and essence. “The world is a comedy to those that think a tragedy to those that feel,” Kate Atkinson's latest novel Transcription is about a young woman who becomes a MI5 spy. ![]()
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