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The research is aimed at revealing the peculiarities of a new female experience in view of the times of World War II and a rapid change of the patriarchal matrix. The subject of study is K. Atkinson's spy novel "Transcription" (2018), the main character of which is Juliet Armstrong, a double spy who works for both the British and Soviet intelligence services, and who is in strong contrast to the traditional female model accepted by society. The writer is once again immersed in the theme of World War II. She chooses an unusual perspective and describes activities of MI5, the British intelligence service. It is about identifying supporters of the ideas of the Third Reich among the British people. In the afterword to the novel, the writer admits that the real prototype of her story was a man, an agent of the British intelligence service. However, K. Atkinson in her work figures such an agent as a girl, not a man, which reflected the realities of the time. This is connected with rethinking of the traditional female experience during World War II, when the patriarchal social paradigm in Britain was shattered. Many men found themselves at the front, and women came to their jobs. Such forced retraining of women, taken into account emancipation that covered Europe in the interwar period, does not seem supernatural, but it transforms ultimately the perception of women and their characteristic social experience. The author displays how a woman completely takes over all male social roles and copes with them successfully.