Doubleday

9780385547970

STARRED REVIEW

Shrines of Gaiety

Patience is required to see Kate Atkinson’s latest puzzle through to its end, but the long game pays off, and there’s magic in seeing the whole unexpected picture.

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Review of ‘Shrines of Gaiety’

There's a certain joy in opening a Kate Atkinson novel—a feeling that every element matters and that each surprise and delight will ultimately make perfect sense. Her latest novel, Shrines of Gaiety, takes us to London in 1926. The shadows of the Great War and the 1918 flu pandemic weigh heavily on…

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