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LIFE AFTER LIFE - Softcover

Book 1 of 2: Todd Family

Atkinson Kate

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Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-30 Pages: 624 Language: English WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARDWhat if you had the chance to live your life again and again. until you finally got it rightDuring a snowstorm in England in 1910. a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910. the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.What if there were second chances And third chances In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny And would you even want toLife After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion. Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifes bleakest moments. and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive. ...

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Review

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, April 2013: Every time Ursula Todd dies, she is born again. Each successive life is an iteration on the last, and we see how Ursula's choices affect her, those around her, and--so boldly--the fate of the 20th-century world. Most impressive is how Kate Atkinson keeps the complexity of her postmodern plotting so nimble. Life After Life approaches the universe in both the micro- and macro sense, balancing the interior lives of Ursula's friends and family with the weight of two World Wars. (How many writers can make domestic drama as compelling as the London Blitz?) Life After Life is an extraordinary feat of narrative ambition, an audacious genre-bender, and a work of literary genius. --Kevin Nguyen

About the Author

Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread Book of the Year award for her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has been an internationally bestselling author ever since. Her most recent books include Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News?, and Started Early, Took My Dog. Atkinson lives in Edinburgh.

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