In Transcription by Kate Atkinson, Juliet Armstrong finds herself swept along the currents of World War II to become “someone’s girl,” making tea and transcribing the audio recordings of homegrown Nazi sympathizers. Having found my way to Kate Atkinson’s writing by way of Life After Life, I’ve now read most of her published work. She is one of the most versatile writers I’ve ever read but with Transcription, she seems to have fallen prey to that thing that happens when a tv show or movie is […]