Review of 'Started early, took my dog : a novel' on 'LibraryThing'
To be reviewed for Mystery Scene. Wow, amazing. As always, Atkinson spins a story from a series of lives intersecting, connections as thin and delicate as a spider's web, everything from Jackson Brodie's investigation finding a New Zealand woman's birth parents to an ex-copper who impulsively acquires a small child, to an aging actress whose memory has turned into gauzy lace, all of it woven together in a pattern made of coincidence and connections. More complex in structure than previous books in the series, some of the scenes are from the 1970s, when a crime was hushed up, having implications in the present. Darker than the others, too, but just brilliant, the kind of novel that makes you want to turn back and read it all over again.
