Secrets Of A Teenage WWII Spy In 'Transcription'
The young protagonist of Kate Atkinson's latest historical novel finds herself working for British intelligence during the war — and suddenly confronting that experience years later.
During World War II, the British were worried about their own countrymen with Nazi sympathies.
That's the historical basis for Kate Atkinson's new novel, Transcription. 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.
"And she's very naive," Atkinson says in an interview. "But at the same time, she's been
