In 1940, eighteen-year-old Juliet Armstrong is an untikely recruit into the world of espio-nage, assigned to an obscure department of MIS. Her job is to monitor the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, work she finds alternately tedious and terrifying. But alter the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. "A sharp, witty espionage tale from bestseller-and true literary master-Kate Atkinson... It's thrilling and darkly funny. -SAMANTHA IRBY, MARIE CLAIRE Ten years later, now working as a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her MI5 days. There's a different war being fought, on a different battleground, and Juliet is once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to understand that there is no action "Ingenious in construction, indefatigably entertaining," -HILARY MANTEL, author of WOLF HALL and BRING UP THE BODIES without consequence. Transcription is a work of extraordinary power, wit, and empathy—a triumphant novel from one of the best writers of our time. "An intriguing thriller about a woman whose past comes back to haunt her." - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

ISBN: 9780316176668