One Good Turn

Kate Atkinson's brilliant new novel, bringing back Jackson Brodie, from the bestselling CASE HISTORIES.

It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident 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 suspect.

With CASE HISTORIES, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In ONE GOOD TURN she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self.

Unputdownable and triumphant, ONE GOOD TURN is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

KATE ATKINSON was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. She has won several prizes for her short stories. Her first novel, BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM, won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was then chosen as the overall 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year. Her critically acclaimed second and third novels, HUMAN CROQUET and EMOTIONALLY WEIRD are also published by Black Swan as is her collection of short stories, NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. Her most recent novel is the acclaimed bestseller CASE HISTORIES which won the Saltire Book of the Year Award and the Prix Westminster.

Random House Australia
Aurthor: Kate Atkinson
ISBN: 0385610769 / 9780385610766
RRP: $32.95