![]() ![]() ![]() In “Big Sky,” he’s working a routine infidelity case on behalf of a suspicious wife (whose husband, it is discovered, has “indulged in bridled passion” with his girlfriend) when he stumbles onto something awful enough to subvert that little girl’s princess/unicorn fantasyland.Īs Atkinson recently told The Guardian, “Big Sky” began as a screenplay with a female lead. And her new book’s plot is crowded in its own right, which means that “Big Sky” - the first Brodie novel since 2010 - begins as a leisurely panorama of new characters, favorite old ones (like Reggie Chase, the teenage nanny and amateur sleuth from “When Will There Be Good News?,” now a full-fledged detective), vividly contrasting new settings (a bawdy nightclub, a snobbish golf course) and, finally, Brodie himself.īy some strange alchemy, Jackson Brodie is both the heart of these books and the least interesting character in them. So Atkinson has a lot of bread crumbs to toss around. That’s because Brodie’s past is by now very complicated. in all the Brodie books, but it’s never worked better than it does in “Big Sky.” ![]() Atkinson sneaks this into “Big Sky” so casually that it doesn’t resonate until exactly when the author wants it to. Her mother wants her to grow up in a fairy tale, the kind where toy unicorns belong. There’s a spoiled little girl in “Big Sky,” the long-overdue fifth book in Kate Atkinson’s irresistible Jackson Brodie private eye series, who has a closet full of princess costumes. ![]()
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