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11 Hours 8 Minutes
Penguin Books LTD
September 2018
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Transcription by Kate Atkinson, read by Fenella Woolgar.
THE MAGNIFICENT NEW NOVEL BY BESTSELLING AWARD-WINNING KATE ATKINSON
‘Think of it as an adventure, Perry had said right at the beginning of all this.And it had seemed like one. A bit of a lark, she had thought. A Girls’ Own adventure.’
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever.
Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.
Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country’s most exceptional writers.
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Anonymous
If I could give more stars I would, both for the story and the narrator. This is the kind of narrator that makes audio books such a pleasure and adds to the enjoyment of the story.The book itself I found superb and clever. The language used has wit. The story covers a period in history that has been written about extensively, but to me it felt new and fresh in the point of view it takes.The way it jumps between two time periods keeps the tension in the story and the ending did come as a surprise to me. even the acknowledgement at the end was interesting and fun to listen to.Did I already mention the beautiful narration!!!!!!
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Evelyn P.
Amusing and loved the narrator!