Kate Atkinson

This timely in-depth study of award-winning Kate Atkinson's work provides a welcome comprehensive overview of the novels play and short stories. It explores the major themes and aesthetic concerns in her fiction<i>. </i>Combining close analysis and literary contextualisation it situates her multi-faceted work in terms of a hybridisation of genres and innovative narrative strategies to evoke contemporary issues and well as the past. Chapters offer insights into each major publication (from <i>Behind the Scenes at the Museum </i>to <i>Big Sky</i> the latest instalment in the Brodie sequence through the celebrated <i>Life After Life</i> and subsequent re-imaginings of the war) in relation to the key concerns of Atkinson's fiction including self-narrativisation history memory and women's lives.