by Kate Atkinson, 2011
Interesting novel, set in England, about a retired police superintendent, Tracy Waterhouse, who purchases a little girl, Courtney, from a drug-crazed, abusive prostitute, Kelly Cross, at a bus stop. At the same time, Jackson Brodie, a private investigator, saves a little dog beaten by a thug. Their lives intertwine while Jackson Brodie is trying to find the biological parents of a New Zealand woman. Ends up her mother was the murdered prostitute in 1975.