{"id":2439,"date":"2012-06-10T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:50:24","slug":"one-good-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2439","title":{"rendered":"One Good Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/One-Good-Turn-Kate-Atkinson\/dp\/0385608004\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/One-Good-Turn-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"One Good Turn\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/One-Good-Turn-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/One-Good-Turn.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a decent read, addictive as claimed on the jacket, and kept me guessing.  Unlike how I felt about Case Histories (the first book in the Jackson Brodie series) I was satisfied with how all the endings were tied up.  I felt that some parts of the plot were a little cliched though, the prime example of which was the powerful businessman employing a dominatrix.  But I do love how KA brings her characters to life by devoting long passages to their thoughts which I get lost in.  I think that&#8217;s the best aspect of her writing.  A special mention has to go to the bit where someone has to explain to his brother that there has been mix-up and he is not dead as previously reported.  I cried with laughter.  Twice.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b011whc9\">TV series<\/a> of the Jackson Brodie novels is called Case Histories and is currently being shown on BBC HD.  I thought I would read the books before watching their dramatisations.  The books Case Histories, One Good Turn and When Will There Be Good News? have each been made into two part dramatisations.  I thought the Case Histories episodes looked good (pretty scenes of Edinburgh, good looking cast and mostly decent casting) but the translation to screen didn&#8217;t work for me; it all felt very disjointed.  I watched only the second part of One Good Turn (annoyingly I mistakenly deleted the recording of the first part) and felt the same.  I&#8217;m now debating whether I should try watching When Will There Be Good News? before reading the book, to see whether I&#8217;ll enjoy the programmes more if I don&#8217;t know anything about the plot beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>(23rd in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a decent read, addictive as claimed on the jacket, and kept me guessing. Unlike how I felt about Case Histories (the first book in the Jackson Brodie series) I was satisfied with how all the endings were tied up. I felt that some parts of the plot were a little cliched though, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}