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Title: When Will There Be Good News

Subtitle: (Jackson Brodie)

Author: Kate Atkinson

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime.Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison.

Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend, Jackson Brodie, himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.

Members Reviews:

Couldn't finish it.

I was gripped for the first 2 chapters. But it went downhill from there. The story just spiralled into a mishmash of different people talking then thinking then backtracking and remembering. There were too many unbelievable extra people and coincidences to feel any connection to anyone. I wanted to know how it ended for one or two of the characters but couldn't be bothered wading through the inconsequential minutia of non significant characters to complete the book.

Good story spoilt by pantomime voices

I love Kate Atkinson and have read all her books. Although this story was good (not as good as her others) I felt the narrator spoilt the whole experience by using silly women voices that sounded like bad pantomime. Louise Munro and Joanna Hunter especially. They sounded more like Widow Twanky. Although the story has some comic moments, it is not a comedy but it was narrated so badly that it was rendered silly. The other narrators who read 'A God In Ruins' for example was exactly 'right'.

Totally...

This is by far my favourite of the Jackson Brodie novels - such brilliantly drawn characters, especially Reggie (the "beating heart" of the novel), and a storyline that grips you from the very beginning and never lets go. I found it strangely uplifting (much more so than its grim predecessor, One Good Turn), in the way most Kate Atkinson novels are, because her natural humour in the face of chaos and darkness is always apparent, and the conclusion is 'totally' satisfying: Kate Atkinson's writing is a firm favourite in our household!

worth investing time in

If you could sum up When Will There Be Good News in three words, what would they be?

long, complicated, satisfying

Which character as performed by Steven Crossley was your favourite?

Reggie

Any additional comments?

I can't say enough about how good Steven Crossley's narration was. This book was ultimately very satisfying and I was sad to come to the end but I would have given up early on, because the number of characters was daunting, but the narration made everything clear.

Simply splendid

I have read and listened to all of the books in the Jackson Brodie series so far. I love the different plots in the books and this one is another super plot with a lot of humour and a few unexpected turns. But it is the characters in these books that have kept me captivated. Steven Crossley really brings the characters to life and I love his different voices for them. Overall, just a thoroughly pleasant and easy going book.