Saturday, January 30, 2021

Kate Atkinson - Big Sky

A more recent Jackson Brodie book. I read the first couple, Case Histories and One Good Turn, but haven't followed the rest and I suspect Big Sky would've been a fair bit richer if I had. Nonetheless, it's an easy read, and Brodie hasn't lost his tendency to reference country singers at every turn, especially the women. (I wonder whether his reflections are deliberately - on Atkinson's part - generally quite hokey? I wouldn't put it past her.)
He had Miranda Lambert on his headphones. She was his absolute favourite. She was blonde and curvy and sang about drink and sex and heartbreak and nostalgia and he suspected he would be slightly nervous of her in real life. But she was still his absolute favourite.