Juliet transcribes secretly recorded conversations with an undercover MI5 agent named Godfrey Toby. And also, it should be said that she's a pathological liar - which is clearly why the Secret Service would be interested in her." And I think that means that Juliet's already been slightly moved out of her natural environment. "But at the same time, she's been a scholarship girl in a good school. "And she's very naive," Atkinson says in an interview. It follows a character named Juliet Armstrong, who was recruited to the British Secret Service as a teenager to help monitor fascist sympathizers in 1940. That's the historical basis for Kate Atkinson's new novel, Transcription. How?ĭuring World War II, the British were worried about their own countrymen with Nazi sympathies. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Transcription Author Kate Atkinson
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