Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)
July 1, 2019 - Comment
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet – Lost on the left, Found on the right – and the two never seem to balance. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy,
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A brilliant read Having thoroughly enjoyed Kate Atkinson’s “”Life after life”, “A god in ruins” and “Scenes from the museum” I was intrigued to try one of her Jackson Brodie books and the initial volume seemed as good a place to start as any. I always feel that her novels tend to throw in a curved ball to begin with and it takes a while for everything to eventually coalesce before you become totally absorbed in the characters and the stories. This book was no different and the many…
where the stalker imagines/insists that the stalkee is in love with him is De Clerambault’s Syndrome (see Ian McEwen’s … Two gripes. You really do need a notebook at hand to jot down the names and affiliations of the multitude of characters the first time you meet them. If you read the book at a sitting you might remember who they all are and what their relationships to each other are, otherwise . . .The plot line involving attempts on Jackson Brodie’s life is preposterous and one wonders whether Ms. Atkinson had her tongue firmly in her cheek while she pistol-whips him, tampers with his brakes and…
A bit too fragmented I really hoped to enjoy this as then I would have lots more to read. Although very well written in its actual prose, I found it far too fragmented in its presentation of characters – fewer would have certainly been better. Unfortunately, as well as this, I could really not warm to Jackson Brodie (his name doesn’t help), he was too much of a cliché and his daughter was plain annoying. A pity.