Kate Atkinson Knihy

Čo ak by sme mali možnosť žiť svoj život znovu a znovu, až kým nebudeme spokojní? Počas snehovej fujavice v roku 1910 sa v Anglicku narodí dievčatko Ursula, ale zomiera, prv než sa stihne poriadne nadýchnuť. V rovnaký večer roku 1910 sa to isté dievča narodí opäť a tentoraz prežije, no smrť si ju zanedlho počká a cyklus sa zopakuje. Ursula prežíva svoj život nanovo, vždy o niečo dlhšie, vždy s iným tragickým koncom. Zakaždým sa ocitá na začiatku, obdarená šancou vyhnúť sa fatálnym chybám. Ursula si na predošlé životy nespomína, no silné déja vu, predtucha prichádzajúceho nešťastia sú varovaním pred nástrahami, ktoré sa jej kedysi stali osudné. Stačí zdanlivo bezvýznamný krok a všetko sa môže vyvinúť inak. Čím častejšie prežíva tie isté momenty nanovo, tým sú spomienky konkrétnejšie a šanca na dokonalý život väčšia. Dá sa však vyvarovať všetkých chýb? Dá sa zachrániť svet pred jeho nevyhnutným osudom?

Pútavý, miestami láskavo komický a hlboko emocionálny pohľad na druhú svetovú vojnu a na dôsledky, ktoré doľahli nielen na tých, čo prežili, ale aj na budúce generácie. Hlavným hrdinom je Teddy, pilot Britského kráľovského letectva, na ktorého životných osudoch autorka vyrozprávala dramatický príbeh 20. storočia a zachytila obrovské zmeny, ktoré sa udiali v povojnovej Británii. Sleduje jeho život od detstva, opisuje jeho skúsenosti z vojny, manželský život s detskou láskou Nancy, výchovu jedinej dcéry Violy a napokon aj starostlivosť o vnúčatá. Napriek všetkému, čo Teddy zakúsil vo vojne, bude preňho najťažšie prežiť budúcnosť, v ktorú už ani nedúfal. Súčasný pokrok a rýchlo sa meniaci svet je preňho veľkou výzvou, ale vyrovnať sa s tým všetkým nie je ľahké. Vojnové zážitky sú síce hlavnou, no nie jedinou osou príbehu, ktorý je silný a dojímavý zároveň aj vďaka očarujúco využívanej autorskej fikcii a nečakaným situačným zvratom. Kate Atkinsonová svojím románom opäť dokázala, že patrí medzi najvýnimočnejšie spisovateľky našich čias.

Ruby Lennox Was Conceived Grudgingly By Bunty And Born While Her Father, George, Was In The Dog And Hare In Doncaster Telling A Woman In An Emerald Dress And A D-Cup That He Wasn'T Married. Bunty Had Never Wanted To Marry George, But He Was All That Was Left. She Really Wanted To Be Vivien Leigh Or Celia Johnson, Swept Off To America By A Romantic Hero. But Here She Was, Stuck In A Flat Above The Pet Shop In An Ancient Street Beneath York Minster, With Sensible And Sardonic Patrica Aged Five, Greedy Cross-Patch Gillian Who Refused To Be Ignored, And Ruby...Ruby Tells The Story Of The Family, From The Day At The End Of The Nineteenth Century When A Travelling French Photographer Catches Frail Beautiful Alice And Her Children, Like Flowers In Amber, To The Startling, Witty, And Memorable Events Of Ruby'S Own Life.Behind The Scenes At The Museum Is A Multi-Faceted, Richly Comic, Richly Tragic Tour-De-Force, An Epic Family Chronicle That Introduces A Wonderfully Original Narrative Voice.

The Sunday Times bestseller: another triumph from the author of Case Histories and One Good Turn

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie's empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho's gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost. With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson brings together a glittering cast of characters in a truly mesmeric novel that captures the uncertainty and mutability of life; of a world in which nothing is quite as it seems.

Following her mystery debut Case Histories with this percipient, funny, and totally satisfying read, Atkinson once again features ex-cop turned private investigator Jackson Brodie--except this time he is the prime suspect in a deadly crime.

The first book in Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie Mysteries series, called "The best mystery of the decade" by Stephen King, finds private investigator Jackson Brodie following three seemingly unconnected family mysteries in Edinburgh Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape. Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigator Jackson Brodie begins investigating all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge . . .

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. 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. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence--Back cover.

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of award-winning, bestselling author Kate Atkinson’s debut novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a deeply moving and deeply funny family story of happiness and heartbreak National Bestseller Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Ruby Lennox begins narrating her own life at the moment of her conception and from there takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of a girl determined to learn more about her family and the secrets it keeps. Kate Atkinson’s dazzling first novel, named the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year in England, is a darkly comic, deeply moving story of family heartbreak and happiness.