'Some of the other characters are more fully turned out, and the multipronged plot is ingeniously tied up.

'Atkinson is always perceptive and engaging, and this time perhaps a degree less antic in her postmodern playfulness.' - Colin Greenland, The Independent.(.) (E)veryone who picks it up will feel compelled to follow Case Histories through to the last page - and not just for closure.' - Carrie O'Grady, The Guardian Of course, Case Histories is not all sunshine and trite happy endings, but this is a book that rests on a strong and well-constructed moral framework, and is all the more powerful for it. In this aspect the book is more satisfying than many detective novels - not just because it is so well written, but in its defiant refusal to let the dark side win the day merely for the sake of looking gritty and 'real'. ' Case Histories is essentially a balancing act, with evil and ignorance stacked opposite truth and healing.And yet this dark novel is also a delightful, fascinating, and bitingly funny read.' - Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly Evil is not a tumor that can be neatly excised by nabbing a few perverts: It's a chronic, systemic disease.

'Atkinson's world is supersaturated with this kind of flesh-crawling sexual violence.Not quite a consensus, but most very taken by it General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorĪ- : very well-written, consistently entertaining Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson