![]() ![]() In the meantime, Brodie addicts have been able to take the edge off their craving with the TV drama Case Histories, in which Jason Isaacs embodied Jackson’s irresistible anti-charm beautifully, even if the quirkiness felt ersatz. There have been no new Brodie novels since Started Early, Took My Dog in 2010, as Atkinson has been concentrating on the genre-bending sci-fi-tinged novels set around the Second World War – Life After Life, A God in Ruins – that have secured her a place in the front rank of British novelists. ![]() Readers sucked in by the gravitational pull of the whodunnit soon find themselves abandoned by the storyline with no solid ground under their feet, an experience exhilarating to some, unpleasantly stomach-churning to others. After a series of highly praised literary novels in the Nineties, Kate Atkinson devoted most of the first decade of this century to writing four books about Jackson Brodie, a private detective, sexy-grumpy in the Morse mode, who has been deeply hurt by life and is determined to prevent as many people as possible suffering as badly as he has.Įach of these novels at first seems to be tootling along the standard crime fiction route, but before long they slip the surly bonds of formula and ride madly off in all directions. ![]()
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