![]() 1 Atkinson’s work, up to now, can be divided into two distinct plot schemes: those novels with a young female protagonist, with the exception of A God in Ruins (2015), a prequel to Life After Life (2013) and the detective fiction featuring Jackson Brodie and spanning 2004–2019: Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News, Started Early, Took My Dog and Big Sky. ![]() Since the publication of her first novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum in 1995, it could be contended that Atkinson’s narratives are concerned with the representation of all the issues that women face just because of their gender, starting from neo-patriarchal norms and values still embedded in current society to the most brutal and physical form of gender violence: death. ![]() British novelist Kate Atkinson, author of the Jackson Brodie series, has shown her commitment to both popular genres and feminism. ![]()
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