And they're not - they really could be your neighbor, and I think that's the frightening thing. And then you suddenly - you're almost lulled into not hearing what they're saying, and then you suddenly realize that this hatred is simmering away beneath them in their breasts. It's side-by-side with this, really, kind of tedium of their conversations. On the anti-Semitism expressed by the fascist sympathizers And they wore it to conceal beneath their lapel so that when the Germans invaded, they could just turn their lapel and quietly show the invading German army that they were actually sympathizers. For Transcription, she mined declassified MI5 documents and found the man who became the model for Godfrey Toby - and the unnamed typist who logged his conversations.Īuthor Interviews 'Life After Life,' The Many Deaths And Do-Overs Of Ursula ToddĪt one point, they were given little medals - their sort of civilian iron cross, which they were to wear under their lapel. A decade later, while she's working for the BBC, her past truths and lies suddenly confront her again.Ītkinson's previous two novels, Life After Life and A God in Ruins, were also set during World War II. Juliet transcribes secretly recorded conversations with an undercover MI5 agent named Godfrey Toby.
And also, it should be said that she's a pathological liar - which is clearly why the Secret Service would be interested in her." And I think that means that Juliet's already been slightly moved out of her natural environment. "But at the same time, she's been a scholarship girl in a good school. "And she's very naive," Atkinson says in an interview. 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. That's the historical basis for Kate Atkinson's new novel, Transcription.
How?ĭuring World War II, the British were worried about their own countrymen with Nazi sympathies. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Transcription Author Kate Atkinson
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