Kait ✨
Written on Jun 28, 2020
A Penguin Book Club Pick
From the bestselling author of Life After Life, a new novel that explores the repercussions of one young woman's espionage work during World War II.
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 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.
Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit, and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of the best writers of our time.
- ISBN10 0385691521
- ISBN13 9780385691529
- Publish Date 18 September 2018 (first published 6 September 2018)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 2 September 2020
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Doubleday Canada
- Imprint Bond Street Books
- Format Hardcover (Deckle Edge)
- Pages 352
- Language English
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