Started Early, Took My Dog
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4.0 • 18 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
The fourth Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.
A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn.
Witnesses to Tracy's outrageous exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie, who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished.
'Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious, panoramic work, full of excitement, colour and compassion' Sunday Times
© Kate Atkinson 2010 (P) Penguin Audio 2011
Customer Reviews
Got up early, took my dog
Really enjoyable as always. Kate Atkinson weaves an intricate tale that keeps you guessing.
My only complaint is the narrator constantly mispronounced the main character’s sister’s name, which could so easily have been put right. Her name is Niamh and is pronounced ’Neeve’. The audiobook company should have checked this before it went out.
Inarticulate narrator
Great book by Kate Atkinson......but the narrator! Awful mispronunciation of Niamh which grated on me. Also a lack of inflection, characterisation and a poor flow of some sentences during the reading: all of which are a terrible injustice to Kate Atkinson’s writing. All for the want of of a good reader. The producer / editor should surely have picked up on these glaring errors.
Ruined by mis-pronunciation
The writing and story are every bit as good as I would have expected from Kate Atkinson. The audiobook is ruined by an average performance and an inability to pronounce Niamh! How on earth was this not picked up before publication? Is there not an equivalent of a proof reader for Audiobooks? 5 stars for the book, one for the narration!