![]() ![]() ![]() What does she do when she gets an idea for her next book while still working on a different one? “I don’t think too consciously about that idea the unconscious mind is beavering away back there,” she says. But his real identity had been the cause of speculation for some time now, it was being revealed that he was really a bank clerk at the Westminster Bank called Eric Roberts.Īs Atkinson dug further, she found transcriptions of his conversations with various Nazi sympathisers, and got to thinking about the girl - and it would have been a girl, says Atkinson - whose job it was to transcribe all of these, mostly rather mundane, discussions.Īnd from there was born Transcription, which Atkinson came back to after putting the finishing touches to A God in Ruins. Posing as a Gestapo agent, he infiltrated fascist groups and prevented secret information from getting into the hands of the Nazis. While on the National Archives’ website, she got drawn into the latest releases section, and learnt about Jack King, who was an MI5 spy during the Second World War. ![]() Kate Atkinson was still working on A God in Ruins - her last novel and a not-quite-sequel to her bestselling Life After Life - when she came across something of interest. ![]()
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