Started Early, Took My Dog : (Jackson Brodie)

by Atkinson, Kate | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 17/02/2011 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Black Swan) in the United Kingdom as part of the Jackson Brodie series
Paperback | 496 pages
197 x 128 x 32mm | 344g

The fourth Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.

'Crime has given Atkinson the freedom to write an ambitious, panoramic work, full of excitement, colour and compassion' Sunday TimesA 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.