Even minor characters are so well drawn.”Īs with her crime novels – which feature the crumpled-but-appealing detective Jackson Brodie, and ran for two series as Case Histories on the BBC, with Jason Isaacs playing the lead – Life After Life had a subsequent life of its own when it was turned into a BBC drama earlier this year. She immediately places you within a situation, and in a particular timeline, and you feel as if you’ve known her characters all your life. It’s actually a very difficult thing to do, but Kate does it so well, and so quickly. It’s all to do with connection at the end of the day,” Cannon says, “a connection a book makes with a reader. Joanna Cannon, the author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Breaking & Mending, and a former junior doctor – who, like Atkinson, didn’t turn to fiction until midlife – discovered her shortly after, in her local library.
It won the Whitbread Prize, beating Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes…, was published in 1995, when she was 43. Born in Yorkshire in 1951, she worked as a secretary and a teacher and was married twice (she has two children, one from each marriage) before she started to take her writing seriously. Atkinson came to writing comparatively late in life.
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