‘Shrines of Gaiety’ a Delightful Romp Through the Roaring Twenties
‘Shrines of Gaiety’ is what its title describes: an entertainment, albeit a cut above the usual beach read. Yet one cannot help but feel that Ms. Atkinson’s venture into genre fiction is a distraction from deeper work.
‘Shrines of Gaiety’
By Kate Atkinson
Doubleday, 384 pages
What can’t Kate Atkinson do? The dame of the Order of the British Empire is a three-time winner of Costa Book Awards — formerly the Whitbread — whose books encompass police procedurals and time travel, spies and alternate realities, has turned her attentions to the light historical novel with “Shrines of Gaiety,” a sprawling picaresque set in the full swing of London’s Roaring Twenties.
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