01943cam a2200277 4500 759389910 TxAuBib 20181018120000.0 181016s2018||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9780316453318 lg. print : alk. paper $30.00 0316453315 lg. print : alk. paper $30.00 KyBuM KyBuM TxGR TxAuBib Atkinson, Kate. Transcription [Large Type Book] / Kate Atkinson. 1st U.S. large print ed. New York, NY : Little, Brown and Co., 2018. 453 p. (large print) ; 25 cm. "In 1940, eighteen-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of the best writers of our time"--From the publisher's web site. 20181018. Great Britain MI5 Officials and employees Fiction. Women radio producers and directors Fiction. Nineteen fifties Fiction. Spy stories. Detective and mystery stories. RV8