It is nearly a decade since writer Kate Atkinson’s gruff private detective Jackson Brodie last appeared in print. In the intervening years, Jason Isaacs has brought him to brooding life on screen in the BBC series ‘Case Histories’, named after the first Brodie book and his creator has produced her most acclaimed historical novels, including Life After Life and its sequel, A God in Ruins, both of which won the Costa Novel award. Now, after three books set during the second world war, Kate Atkinson has returned to Brodie and a very contemporary theme: the sexual exploitation of women and children. Ten years since we left him, now living back in his native Yorkshire, Brodie’s solitary existence has been interrupted by the arrival of his 13-year-old son, Nathan, for the summer holidays.