Juliet realises that the body is Beatrice Dodd and is frightened as the location her body was found in was one mentioned by Godfrey Toby's Nazi sympathisers. The following morning Juliet is sought out by the police who believed she was dead as they found the body of a young woman with her identification papers. Scaife's maid, an orphan named Beatrice Dodd, to help cover for her.Ī few days later, Perry proposes to Juliet, who doesn't realise he is gay. Scaife's house Juliet accidentally leaves behind her handbag, containing her real identity card, and asks Mrs. Juliet does so, but despite noticing Godfrey acting suspiciously does not report back to Oliver. She is also approached by Oliver Alleyne, Perry's boss, who asks her to spy on Godfrey. Juliet is given the false name Iris Carter-Jenkins. Scaife, hoping that she will lead them to the Red Book, a rumoured ledger containing the names of influential Nazi sympathisers. Instead he recruits her to ingratiate herself to a woman named Mrs. Juliet develops a crush on Perry, who seems to encourage speculation that they are having an affair but does not return her affections. The walls are bugged with microphones and Juliet's job is to transcribe the audio recordings of their conversations. Working out of two flats, the MI5 team reveal that they are spying on a group of low-level Nazi sympathisers who report to MI5 spy Godfrey Toby, believing he is a secret spy for the Gestapo. Hired to work at MI5, she is quickly scouted for an operation run by the elusive Perry Gibbons.

The incident causes Juliet to reflect back to 1940 when she was a young 18-year-old woman who had recently been orphaned. When she approaches him he denies knowing her. In 1950, Juliet Armstrong, a producer of children's programmes at the BBC, sees Godfrey Toby, a man she knew during WWII. She begins a career as a low-level transcriptionist for MI5, before rising through the ranks.

The novel focuses on the activities of British orphan Juliet Armstrong throughout World War II and afterwards. Transcription is a spy novel by British novelist Kate Atkinson, published in September 2018.

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