A man arrives and murders her mother, brother, and sister, but Joanna escapes, running off into the fields around the house. Her mother is determined to survive and to do well by her kids. Six-year-old Joanna Mason lives in a remote house with her mother and two siblings after her father has abandoned them. The story opens thirty years in the past. In her crime novel When Will There Be Good News?, featuring recurring character Jackson Brodie, Kate Atkinson begins with several seemingly unrelated storylines that slowly resolve into a whole.
It begins in Devon where six-year-old Joanna witnesses the brutal murder of her mother, sister and brother and barely escapes with her own life. It is the third to involve retired private detective Jackson Brodie and is set in and around Edinburgh. When Will There Be Good News? is a 2008 crime novel by Kate Atkinson and won the 2009 Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year at the British Book Awards.
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