A review by andintothetrees
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

5.0

At last, a decent book! Kate Atkinson is (or rather, was) one of those authors who I often heard about and who seemed to be popular among people who enjoy similar books to me, but whose work I had never tried (despite the fact that her books often have wonderful titles such as Started Early, Took My Dog and Emotionally Weird). I guess her plots just didn’t seem hugely appealing, and I was put off by the fact they often seem to receive comparatively fairly mixed reviews. That said, I picked this one up at the library on impulse recently – I knew I had to get around to trying her books eventually, and when I read the blurb and realized the book was set in Cambridge, with a main character who never felt he belonged there, I was sold (as I went to university there, and never felt like I belonged either).

... [Read the rest of my review here: https://whathannahread.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/case-histories-by-kate-atkinson/]