![]() ![]() ![]() The inspiration for the story came from the author’s perusal of recently opened archives of WWII transcripts including information about the “Right Club,” comprised of Nazi sympathizers living in Britain. We watch her thoughts and actions in one time period and understand the ramifications and results in another. The twist is that it is told from the perspective of a young and intelligent woman who doesn’t necessarily know what she is getting into and just wants to do something interesting with her life. ![]() This is a spy story replete with layers of intrigue and confusion. These are book-ended by brief scenes from 1981. Transcription zigzags between two important periods of Juliet Armstrong’s life - her work as a Transcription typist and sometime spy for MI5 during WWII and her work as a producer for the BBC and occasional safe house manager in the 50s. Tenebrism – from Italian tenebroso (“dark, gloomy, mysterious”), also occasionally called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using profoundly pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image.priapic – relating to or resembling a phallus.flageolet – The flageolet is a woodwind instrument and a member of the fipple flute family.and NetGalley for an early review copy of Transcription by Kate Atkinson, which will publish September 25, 2018. ![]()
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