I enjoyed this book very what Couldn’t put it done. Keep you wondering

Thirty years ago a young mother and her three young children are walking home with the family dog in Devon, a rural area of Scotland. A random stranger armed with a knife approaches, kills the mom, the 8 year old daughter, the baby and the dog. Only 6 year old Joanna escapes, running into the wheat field at her wounded mother's urging. Thirty years later a plucky 16 year old, Reggie Chase, talks her way into a baby sitting job for the one year old son of Dr. Joanna Hunter. Reggie is smart, but from a dismal family situation. Around the same time former police officer Jackson Brodie gets on a crowded train, intending to return to London. He has, however mistakenly hopped on the train going the opposite direction. The three story lines come together when that train collides with a car on the track as it passes through Edinburgh. Author Kate Atkinson is brilliant at fleshing out the details of the lives of her myriad cast of characters. The issue becomes not so much Who Killed Who, but how the various characters will deal with the circumstances they have been handed. Several of the characters seem to have a literary bent, frequently recalling bits of poetry or literature that comes to their minds as the story unfolds. The plot has several interesting story lines and some surprising twists and turns toward the end of the book. Quite the satisfying read and I am eager to enjoy more from Ms. Atkinson as the opportunities arise!

It will stay with me, this one. Just spectacular. I can't say more without giving anything away - just read it and you, too, will be touched.

Some was a bit hard for me to translate, give my lack of understanding of the culture & geography, but it was a great story with solid characters.

Excellent read