When she receives a threatening letter telling her she will pay for what she did, Juliet believes it may have be from someone she spied on during the war. Eventually Juliet becomes a spy too and is directed to infiltrate a social group whose members a British Fascist sympathiser who is believed to have a copy of the ‘Red Book’.Īfter the war ended, Juliet worked for the BBC producing educational radio programs for children, alongside several of her former M15 colleagues. Juliet is an intelligent young woman who is bored by the vapid conversations she transcribes, but still naïve enough to imagine herself to be in love with her boss, who is happy to take advantage of her feelings. Transcription is the story of Juliet Armstrong, who was an 18 year-old orphan in 1940 when she was recruited by M15 to transcribe the recordings of meetings held between M15’s spies and traitors who believe they are aiding England’s enemies. Transcription was good but not great, although, to be fair, I might have been better satisfied with Transcription if I hadn’t known she was capable of so much more. I was frustrated reading Transcription by Kate Atkinson, because I want everything she writes to be as brilliant as Life After Life.
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