Kate Atkinson

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Kate Atkinson

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in York, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1951

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Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since.

She is the author of a collection of short stories, Not the End of the World, and of the critically acclaimed novels Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Case Histories, and One Good Turn.

Case Histories introduced her readers to Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award and the Prix Westminster.

When Will There Be Good News? was voted Richard & Judy Book Best Read of the Year. After Case Histories and One Good Turn, it was her third novel to fea...more


Average rating: 3.82 · 79,536 ratings · 10,088 reviews · 27 distinct works · Similar authors
Case Histories (Jackson Bro...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 25,967 ratings — published 2004 — 51 editions
When Will There Be Good New...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 12,519 ratings — published 2008 — 31 editions
Behind the Scenes at the Mu...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 9,360 ratings — published 1995 — 38 editions
One Good Turn (Jackson Brod...
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 9,536 ratings — published 2006 — 45 editions
Started Early, Took My Dog ...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 9,250 ratings — published 2010 — 29 editions
Life After Life
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 5,785 ratings — published 2013 — 17 editions
Human Croquet
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 2,816 ratings — published 1997 — 29 editions
Emotionally Weird
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 2,443 ratings — published 2000 — 20 editions
Not the End of the World
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,617 ratings — published 2002 — 15 editions
Behind The Scenes at the Mu...
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1995
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April 2013, Kate Atkinson
"The acclaimed novelist pauses her Jackson Brodie series to pen the historical opus Life After Life, about a woman who relives the havoc of World War II again and again." ...More

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“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories

“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.”
Kate Atkinson

“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”
Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet

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