when will there be good news - kate atkinson
Atkinson is a remarkable writer. She pretends she's writing a mystery, but When Will There be Good News is so much more, such an intricately constructed building that threatens to become top-heavy, and then fall over, but it doesn't, and even the ending is really superb. I was afraid she wasn't going to pull it all of, but she did, and she did it magnificently. Really, mysteries-that-are-also-several-other-genres are my favourite sort of book at the moment, and this was one of the very best I read this year.
19-10-2009
