Which was exactly the opposite of how he felt now. There was nothing there for him, just bad memories and a past he could never undo, and what was the point anyway when France was laid out on the other side of the Channel like an exotic patchwork of sunflowers and grapevines and little cafes where he could sit all afternoon drinking local wine and bitter espressos and smoking Gitanes, where everyone would say, Bonjour, Jackson, except they would pronounce it 'zhaksong', and he would be happy. For years he had thought about moving back north, but he knew he never would. He had come here more or less by accident, following a girlfriend and staying for a wife.

'Jackson had never felt at home in Cambridge, never felt at home in the south of England if it came to that. His ability to connect comes from his own tragic childhood that still haunts him. He's unable to resist coming to the rescue and increasingly he becomes a magnet for the bereaved, the lost and the dysfunctional. Jackson's tough-guy exterior belies a deeply empathetic heart. Atkinsons Jackson Brodie series goes from strength to strength with the decades old. A former soldier and policeman he now makes his money working from investigating infidelity and finding missing cats. Started Early, Took My Dog: (Jackson Brodie) - Jackson Brodie (Paperback). She could be free of it now.” She is done with being a librarian and tired of being called “sensible,” and she’s looking for a little excitement.Jackson Brodie is a private investigator, originally from Yorkshire. She had lived beneath the shadow of the war for long enough. But “she was not yet thirty, she reminded herself. Jackson Brodie, ex-cop, ex-private detective, new millionaire, is among the bystanders. With him is Gwendolen Kelling of York, a dauntless veteran war nurse, now orphaned and alone in the world. … She knew that her health would not survive incarceration a second time.”Īmong the festive crowd watching Nellie emerge from prison is Scotland Yard Detective Chief Inspector John Frobisher, a stoic cop and secret romantic who still misses the Shropshire of his boyhood. “For perhaps the first time in her life she was wearying of the relentless drive required to keep their lives thrusting forward.

She must prepare.” She needs a plan of succession, a plan to keep her six grown children busy, solvent and out of the nick. Nellie’s imprisonment has worn her down, though, and “she feared it would not be long before she was worm food. Kate Atkinson’s 'Shrines of Gaiety' is set in London in 1926, on the louche fringes of booze-soaked Soho.

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