when will there be good news? by Kate Atkinson

Atkinson always , but always surprises. Just when you think you have got the hang of her intelligent,quirky plotting something new and surprising reaches up and grabs your viscera.And changes your view of the world she created.Of the world, really. Who can you trust? What is trust founded on? How, ever, can we know our own hearts? And if we do, what can the outcome be? How , ever, do we deal with loss and how does it shape our destiny?
And then , of course, there's Jackson Brodie.Who? likeable and sane, he appears in and shapes many Atkinson novels . You can depend on Jackson even if he doesn't get a great deal in life.And in this novel we have Reggie - a young, bright and appallingly lost girl.Together they encompass events which are dreadful, ordinary, explicable and inexplicable and almost everything is traced back to loss. Nothing is easy and nothing is as it seems ; but Atkinson can deal , and humorously too, as well as wisely, with themes like compassion, redemption, loss and love.Brilliant!