{"product_id":"case-histories-by-kate-atkinson-9780552772433","title":"Case Histories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA major event: a new novel by the Whitbread winner, her first novel since \u003cem\u003eEmotionally Weird\u003c\/em\u003e, and probably her most commercial book yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Investigating other people's tragedies and cock-ups and misfortunes was all he knew. He was used to being a voyeur, the outsider looking in, and nothing, but nothing, that anyone did surprised him any more. Yet despite everything he'd seen and done, inside Jackson there remained a belief - a small, battered and bruised belief - that his job was to help people be good rather than punish them for being bad.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCambridge is sweltering during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - Lost on the left, Found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a failed marriage to prove it. He is forty-five but feels much, much older. He is at that dangerous age when men suddenly notice that they're going to die eventually, inevitably, and there isn't a damn thing they can do about it. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life is brought sharply into focus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIngeniously plotted, full of suspense and heartbreak, \u003cem\u003eCase Histories\u003c\/em\u003e is a feat of bravura storytelling that conveys the mysteries of life, its inanities and its hilarities. It is a life-affirming work of profound insight and intelligence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46215608205548,"sku":"9780552772433","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780552772433.jpg?v=1740518875","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/case-histories-by-kate-atkinson-9780552772433","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}