![]() ![]() One of those who finds the body is WPC Tracy Waterhouse. A prostitute is murdered and her child(ren?) disappear(s). ![]() It has its roots in an event that happened in the 1970s. It's from one of Dickinson's poems that the rather weird title of this book is derived.īut enough about cultural references. There are also literary references to everyone from Shakespeare to Faulkner to, in this case, Emily Dickinson. For example, I think every one of her books that I have read so far has had someone in them watching Midsomer Murders ! As a prodigious fan of that series and owner of an (almost) complete collection of DVDs of it, I know just who she's talking about when she refers to those people.Īnother television investigative team she mentions in this book is that of Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis, another of my all-time favorites. Many of her references relate to television series that any fan of PBS/BBC mysteries will recognize. The cognoscente feel especially smart and privileged to understand the references. It's sort of an "inside baseball" thing, I guess. One of the great pleasures - one of many - for me in reading Kate Atkinson is all the cultural and literary references in her books. ![]()
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