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Title: Brace Yourself!
Review: As Tartan Noir goes, this is awfully good, and also awfully Noir.The pleasure with Kate Atkinson is characters that leap off the page. Notonly do you know them, you want to know them, and keep knowing them longafter the story ends, even though they have enough dramas going on in theirlives for a few dozen Coronation Streets.The setting - Edinburgh, the lowlands of Scotland, sometimes northern England,is equally vivid, foggy, gloomy and sometimes menacing (does the sun NEVER comeout over there?)Kate Atkinson is a terrific writer, smart and sometimes wickedly funny but...warning: You don't read her stuff when you want cheering up.
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