![]() ![]() It was Freda & Gertie who looked similar (petite with blonde ringlets so both different physically from heavyset Florence) I think the drowned girl was just a poor random girl and a bit of a red-herring from the author. ![]() Her Mum thought she was different because she was: drug-addled and with PTSD. She was able to return home when the policemen died/went to jail. I think Maddox or the other cop got her hooked on drugs (Freda found powder in her drawer) and I think she rigged the handbag being stolen to pay for them and as her habit got worse was forced into prostitution (she got picked up in the car). In an afterword laying out the historical roots of Transcription, Atkinson describes how she became interested in an MI5 operation that spied on fascist sympathizers in England. My guess is that it was the real Florence who returned home at the end (she went on to have kids who had big feet and were adenoidal which are pretty specific hereditary details) but she seemed different to her Mum because I think she’d been badly damaged. ![]() Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring. I think the author left it vague for the reader to work out like a little mystery. In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Just finished reading Shrines of Gaiety and loved it!įlorence’s storyline intrigued me. ![]()
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