![]() ![]() ![]() Leaving work one day, she runs into an old nemesis, Kelly Cross, a “prostitute, druggie, thief, all-round pikey.” Kelly is dragging an abused toddler onto a city bus, and in a split-second Tracy finds herself asking, “How much for the kid?” An envelope changes hands, the bus pulls away, and Tracy is suddenly the guardian of Courtney, a solemn toddler she’d just purchased on impulse. Recently retired policewoman Tracy Waterhouse, a 50ish woman with no particular attachments and no plans for the rest of her life, has taken a job as security director of a Leeds, England, shopping mall, more out of boredom than anything else. Atkinson goes on to introduce three characters and interweave meditations on other sets of three - particularly beginnings, middles and ends. “To the Pythagoreans, three was the first real number, because they saw it as having a beginning, a middle and an end,” says a character early in Kate Atkinson’s latest novel, the excellent “Started Early, Took My Dog” (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown). Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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