![]() ![]() ‘Jackson found photographs unsettling enough at the best of times. One day they would simply lay down tools and walk off, of course.’Īging, desperation, loneliness and the relativity of morality in today’s society are key themes of Started Early, Took My Dog. ‘Jackon supposed that other people’s small brain-dwelling inhabitants ran their operations rather like air-traffic controllers, always aware of the location of everything they were responsible for, never sloping off for tea breaks or loitering in the shadowy recesses of rarely accessed shelves, where they smoked fly cigarettes and kvetched about their poor working conditions. Atkinson’s subtle character development is a real treat. It meanders into philosophical jaunts and switches back and forth between the current day and times gone by. In Started Early, Took My Dog Kate Atkinson has plumbed literary depths uncommon in the mystery and crime-detective genre. Readers must surrender themselves to the author when embarking on this very literary journey in the mind of Atkinson’s multi-faceted characters - philosophical traveller Jackson Brodie, battle-worn Tracy Waterhouse searching for something more in life and elderly actress Tilly searching for memories of a life gone by. Disclosure: If you click a link in this post and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. ![]()
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