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Portrait of Kate Atkinson Photo: Martin Hunter / TT (2008)

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Atkinson, Kate

The British author Kate Atkinson was born in York, her father was a shopkeeper. She read English literature at Dundee University, graduating with an MA in 1974. She did postgraduate studies in American literature, but left university and worked as a legal secretary, home help and teacher. She began her writing career by publishing romantic short stories in women’s magazines. Kate Atkinson has b...

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Zack Walker

Gender: Male

Science-fiction writer and journalist, and an over-protective and virtually paranoid family father. He does everything so that his wife, Susan, and their two children shall be safe and secure, but his creator Linwood Barclay lets him time after time become entangled in complicated murder mysteries in a farcical manner. Which means that Zack Walter must act the amateur detective so that his...

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