u003cpu003eu003cbu003e'u003c/bu003eu003cbu003eAtkinson on her finest formu003c/bu003e. A marvel of plate-spinning narrative knowhow, a peak performance of consummate control.u003cbu003e'u003c/bu003e OBSERVERu003cbru003e u003cbru003e 'This is u003cbu003ethe perfect novel for uncertain timesu003c/bu003e.' THE TIMESu003cbru003e u003cbru003e 'I can think of u003cbu003efew writers other than Dickensu003c/bu003e who can match it' SUNDAY TIMESu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003e'Brilliant'u003c/bu003e RICHARD OSMANu003cbru003e u003cbru003e 'Kate Atkinson is u003cbu003esimply one of the best writers working today,u003c/bu003e anywhere in the worldu003cbu003e'u003c/bu003e GILLIAN FLYNNu003cbru003e u003cbru003e ____u003cbru003e u003cbru003e 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e At the heart of this glittering world is notorious Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie's empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho's gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson brings together a glittering cast of characters in a truly mesmeric novel that captures the uncertainty and mutability of life; of a world in which nothing is quite as it seems.u003cbru003e _____u003cbru003e u003cbru003e 'Seduction, betrayal, and larger-than-life characters that u003cbu003ewill have you hooked until the last pagu003c/bu003ee' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHu003cbru003e u003cbru003e 'This book is u003cbu003eone to savouru003c/bu003e, for the energy, for the wit, for the tenderness of characterisation that make Atkinson enduringly popular' GUARDIANu003cbru003e u003cbru003e 'As vividly filthy, populous, dangerous as anything described by Dickens, but writing is closer to Thackeray's...u003cbu003eAtkinson is a novelist of unrivalled immediacy, authority, and skillu003c/bu003e.' FINANCIAL TIMESu003c/pu003e
