where Atkinson the tricksy magical realist and Atkinson the crime novelist intersect.
probably the most difficult to "get into" with its complex nonlinear narrative but one of my favourites.
This has everything you need from an Atkinson novel: murder, incest (lots of incest), unhappy families, bad men (men ARE bastards aren't they? ), the North, cracks in time, time warp, wormholes, time loops, death, violence, highbrow literary references, lowbrow literary references, dark pitch humour. ..mystery, child abuse, domestic abuse. ..everything