Kate Atkinson

1910-ben, a hóba süllyedt vidéki Angliában megszületik egy kislány, de az orvos elakad a hóban, a baba pedig meghal, mielőtt levegőt vehetne. Még ugyanezen az éjszakán a doktor mégis megérkezik, hogy időben megmentse az újszülöttet, és ezzel megkezdődik Ursula Todd különleges...

Kate Atkinson Ursula Todd különleges életét tárta fel előző, nagyszabású, Élet az élet után című regényében, melyben hőse tragikus halálai szerencsés megmenekülésekkel, újabb és újabb választási lehetőségekkel váltakoznak. A csaknem egy évszázadot felölelő...

November 1930 A fug of tobacco smoke and damp clammy air hit her as she entered the café. She had come in from the rain and drops of water still trembled like delicate dew on the fur coats of some of the women inside. A regiment of white-aproned waiters rushed around at tempo, serving the needs...

Harvest the heat rising up from the tarmac seemed to get trapped between the thick hedges that towered above their heads like battlements. 'Oppressive/ their mother said. They felt trapped too. 'Like the maze at Hampton Court/ their mother said. 'Remember?' 'Yes/ Jessica said. 'No/ Joanna...

1915: 9 April Leeds: 'Motorway City ofthe Seventies'. A proud slogan. No irony intended. Gaslight still flickering on some streets. Life in a northern town. The Bay City Rollers at number one. IPJ^ bombs all over the country. Margaret Thatcher is the new leader of the Conservative Party. At the...

STREETS OF TREES Call me Isobel. (It's my name.) This is my history. Where shall 1 begin? Before the beginning is the void and the void belongs in neither time nor space and is therefore beyond our imagination. Nothing will come of nothing, unless it's the beginning of the world. This is how...

Kate Atkinson was bom in York and now lives in Whitby, Yorkshire, with her two daughters. After graduating from Ehmdee University she did a variety of jobs, from being a home help to teaching with the Community Education Service. She has won several prizes for her short stories, including the Ian...