Kate Atkinson has already made a splash with her debut novel, which won the prestigious Whitbread Prize, beating out many eminent candidates - for example, Salman Rushdie with his The Moor's Farewell Sigh. However, her real fame came with the publication of Crimes of the Past, the first book in the series about the Cambridge private detective Jackson Brody. The novel caused a storm of delight among critics, colleagues, and the general reader; Stephen King himself became one of the most ardent promoters of Atkinson’s work. “Crimes of the Past” was followed by “Turn for the Better” and “Should We Expect Good News?”, no less full of music and causing no less enthusiastic reactions. And finally, for the first time, the next novel comes out in Russian: “It’s a little light, together with the dog.” After all his adventures in Cambridge and Edinburgh, Brody returns to his native Yorkshire. Retired, it would seem. In retirement, a private detective is trying to track down the fake wife who cleaned out his bank account and responds, without meaning to, to a sudden letter from New Zealand: “I was adopted, and I would like to ask: could you find out something about my biological parents? » But it turns out to be easier said than done: Nadine McMaster’s parents do not appear in any archives, nor does the fact of adoption itself. Brody didn’t plan to get a dog either, but here you go. But what he least expected from himself was that he would become interested in poetry...