![]() ![]() The novel opens as constable Tracy Waterhouse and her colleague, Ken Arkwright, are called to a flat in Lovell Park where they find the bloody, decomposing body of local down-on-her-luck prostitute Carol Braithwaite. ![]() Of the action takes place in Leeds where, in one harrowing night in 1975, a social worker, a policewoman, and a reporter are unexpectedly held to account for a prostitute’s violent murder almost aĭecade before the Yorkshire Ripper was caught with a large back catalogue of murders to his name. In which tragedy begets loneliness and quiet desperation is balanced against an intimacy in people’s lives. ![]() "The past was a dark place, a man's world" This quote taps into the heart of Atkinson’s achingly cynical novel, Book review: Kate Atkinson's *Started Early, Took My Dog* ![]()
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