Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson

He steals a dog. She steals a kid. And these are the good guys. So begins Started Early, Took My Dog. Once again, Kate Atkinson manages to take seemingly disparate stories (an actress with Alzheimer's, a prostitute's murder in 1975, a pregnant woman in New Zealand) and manages to tie them all together with creativity and wit.

Though the plot was extremely convoluted, I couldn't put the book down and was dying to see what happened with the dog-stealer Jackson and the kid-stealer Tracy, in hopes that they'd each have a happy ending.