![]() ![]() It’s quite a complex plot, though not so complex you have no enjoyment in it in fact quite the opposite, told over two periods in time and through several different view points in each. To try and encapsulate the story or plot of ‘Started Early, Took My Dog’ is actually quite difficult. But let’s get onto what ‘Started Early, Took My Dog’ is all about shall we? Yet if you are now worrying ‘oh I haven’t read the other three’ fear not because what is brilliant about this set of books is that they all stand alone and (as a few of my family members have – not naming any names) you could read them in any order. ‘Started Early, Took My Dog’ is the fourth in what has become a series of ‘literary crime’ novels, as they have been pigeon-holed by publishers/bookshops not by me, featuring Jackson Brodie. These debates went on when ‘Started Early, Took My Dog’ (which might be one of my favourite book titles of the year) by Kate Atkinson arrived, in the end however I just caved in. ![]() ![]() I always find the latter interesting as I don’t tend to be a pessimistic person. The second half holds off with a mixture of wanting to wait because once I have read it its read and also the fear that it might not be as good as the others. The first half wants to drop whatever it is I am already reading and start it that second. When one of the books you have been most looking forward to all year pops through my letter box my mind seems to split in two. ![]()
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