TRANSCRIPTION by Kate Atkinson

Note: I am not a paid reviewer, and I have purchased this title to read for my personal enjoyment.

Young Juliet is recruited into British intelligence in 1940 to transcribe recordings of fascist sympathizers with a British spy posing as a Gestapo agent. Her services lead to lies, and confrontation, and years later her war-time deeds must be answered for. This book gave me an education on a small corner of British WW2 intelligence operations. A fair share of spy thriller misdirection forced me to keep my eye on the ball, though the ball seemed to bounce around more than I enjoy in historical suspense reads. Through the eclectic cast of miscreants and their pursuers the constant is Juliet, a likeable, believable young woman who ventures into challenges that she never asked for, but proves up to nonetheless.