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Informationen zum Autor KATE ATKINSON is one of the world’s foremost novelists. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum . Life After Life , an acclaimed BBC TV series, won several prizes including the Costa Novel Award, as did A God in Ruins . Two further historical novels – Transcription and Shrines of Gaiety - were also Sunday Times bestsellers. She has published two critically acclaimed collections of short stories: Not the End of the World and Normal Rules Don’t Apply . Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn , When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog , became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky and the most recent, Death at the Sign of the Rook , was a number one bestseller. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. For information about Kate’s books, including her Jackson Brodie series, visit www.kateatkinson.co.uk Klappentext Now in paperback, Atkinson's second novel follows the phenomenal success of her first, "Behind The Scenes At The Museum", which won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. "Human Croquet" is about Isobel Fairfax, who lives with her brother, father, step-mother and the aunt from Hell. Isobel is waiting for her mother to return from wherever she has been for so many years... "Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns" "Observer". Will do very well in B format. Zusammenfassung The brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate Atkinson. 'Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns' ObserverOnce it had been the great forest of Lythe....
