One Good Turn
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Narrated by:
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Steven Crossley
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By:
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Kate Atkinson
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
The second Jackson Brodie novel (after Case Histories): literary crime from the prizewinning, number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription.
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - a near-homicidal attack which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a murder suspect.
As the body count mounts, each member of the teeming Dickensian cast's story contains a kernel of the next, like a set of nesting Russian dolls. They are all looking for love or money or redemption or escape: but what each actually discovers is their own true self.
'An absolute joy to read...the pleasure of One Good Turn lies in the ride, in Atkinson's wry, unvanquished characters, her swooping, savvy, sarcastic prose and authorial joie de vivre' Guardian
© Kate Atkinson 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2015
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- Di
- 25-05-15
Not enough mystery and suspense
An average light read, I wouldn't know how to compare it to the average Jackson Brodie story, because I haven't read very many. After finishing the book, I couldn't help thinking that it was as if Kate Atkinson herself graded the book/ and series as average crime novels, through her character writer, also her description of the average reader wasn't very flattering either. That was the irony and tragedy of the book. Good imagination, but few of her characters were a bit shallow. Well, if Kate Atkinson feels that it is time for her to write a more serious novel, then I hope she can live up to the challenge, but why undermine this story by sharing the frustration.
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- Elizabeth
- 19-01-25
Classic Kate Atkinson. Complex, funny and moving
Sad, gripping, funny. Flawed and fascinating characters. Kate Atkinson at her finest. Love the Jackson Brodie books.
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- Claire
- 07-01-25
Real characters
Loved the fleshed out believable characters which you don’t always get in detective fiction. Kate Atkinson is an empathic genius. Love everything she has written.
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- D P.
- 07-01-25
Not the easiest story to listen to but going to try Jackson’s next story
Beautifully read by Steven Crossley. Story quite complicated to listen to but I enjoyed the conclusion. Going to try book 3 now I’ve met Jackson Brody.
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- Gillian
- 10-05-15
A good read, with some annoying elements!
This was a really good, clever, interwoven story, full of rich characters and many twists and turns. Sometimes Kate Atkinson's habit of wandering off into another story, or adding in a mass of detail, became annoying. But overall better than your average thriller. Stephen Crossley is an excellent narrator, and managed to convey a vast cast of characters clearly and distinctly.
I'll continue to follow Jackson's adventures - and his unfortunate love life!
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- C. D. GRIFFITHS
- 26-03-21
Not for me
I couldn't get into this drivel, but it seems to be popular. However, it was well read.
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- S
- 18-11-20
Entertaining and ironic
I loved the way the author reflected both upon the characters and the genre.
Some brilliant observation of human behaviour and I particularly resonated with the shy decent character of the writer Martin when "trying to urinate quietly" in the bathroom of the hotel room where events had conspired to force him to share with the character - clearly 'dodgy' who transpired to be a paid assassin. How many of us are over-aware of their existence and worry about how we feel we may impact upon others, whilst we tolerate the behaviour of others without question?
Full of gentle amusing irony which felt to me as much the point of the novel as any possible crime and hunt for perpetrators, by entertaining quirky detectives.
Not many detective/crime novels have you laughing out loud; that has to be an achievement.
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- Aztec
- 07-04-20
Entertainingly over the top
Good reading, the story is consciously over the top, all for the reader's entertainment. The more improbable, the better. Edinburgh provides a louche backdrop.
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- timothy
- 20-11-16
More than a mystery
Kate Atkinson is such a good writer. This book had gripping moments broken up by great humour - she made each character very real. She is gentle with her people but you get a sense of how bad the 'baddies' are and all the characters are well observed making for some funny comments. The plot swung along well too. I wish I had it ahead of me to listen to still.
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- andrea longhurst
- 03-08-21
Difficult to follow at times
Not as good as the other Jackson Brodie books, took time to get into the story with all the different characters
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