![]() ![]() She knows she's creating an idea of England, a scrim to hang over bombed-out buildings and dead bodies. At the BBC, Juliet creates programming about the past for children, versions of history that rely more on nostalgia than fact. For example, the British Fascists who think they’re passing secrets to the Third Reich are actually giving them to an English spy their crimes are both deadly serious and parodic. The concept of writing over or across-meanings available from the Latin roots that make up the word “transcribe”-runs through the book. ![]() Atkinson is a careful author, and the title she’s chosen for this novel is more than a description of Juliet’s contribution to the war effort. Soon, she’s pulled even deeper into the world of espionage, a world she will ultimately discover is hard to escape-even after she leaves the intelligence service to produce radio programs for the BBC. Her job is transcribing meetings of British citizens sympathetic to the Nazi cause. Juliet Armstrong is 18 years old and all alone in the world when she’s recruited by MI5. The author of A God in Ruins (2015) and Life After Life (2013) revisits the Second World War. ![]()
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