5/20/2023 0 Comments Transcription atkinson review![]() ![]() The novel is also a bit of a girls own adventure. She didn’t feel she had the fortitude for all those Tudors, they were so relentlessly busy – all that bedding and beheading. I loved how Atkinson used Juliet’s inner commentary and it’s contrast to what she reveals outwardly to create tension and comedy. Transcription is a gripping spy story with a skillfully constructed narrative with emotional complexity book-ended by humour. People always said they wanted the truth, but really they were perfectly content with a facsimile. Nothing is exactly as it seems in this slightly camp spy story that moves between 1961, 19, a device that contributes to the sense of obfuscation, along with the invisible ink and hidden cameras and microphones. ![]() Transcription is about the lies and inventions that can shape people’s lives and the consequences of those choices catching up with us. Women and the Jews tend to be first in line, unfortunately. The blame generally has to fall somewhere, Miss Armstrong. ![]() Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. She applies to join the Women’s Armed Forces, but is summoned to a job in the secretarial pool of M.I.5 from where she gets selected to work on a special surveillance operation. BLURB In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Schoolgirl, Juliet Armstrong is orphaned just before the outbreak of the second world war. Choice, it seemed, was one of the first casualties of war. ![]()
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