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Life After Life. 2013 UK: Penguin Books. USA: (Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Company) Life After Life is a 2013 novel by Kate Atkinson. It is the first of two novels about the Todd family. The second, A God in Ruins, was published in 2015. Life After Life garnered acclaim from critics.
Jan 7, 2014 · Kate Atkinson is an international bestselling novelist, as well as playwright and short story writer. She is the author of Life After Life; Transcription; Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a Whitbread Book of the Year winner; the story collection Not the End of the World; and five novels in the Jackson Brodie crime series, which was adapted into the BBC TV show Case Histories.
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Mar 14, 2013 · A historical fiction novel about Ursula Todd, who is born and dies repeatedly in different ways, while witnessing the events of the 20th century. Read ratings, reviews, and excerpts from this award-winning book that explores the themes of fate, choice, and war.
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Apr 26, 2013 · How obvious, one might think. But the one-time-only nature of death is anything but self-evident in Kate Atkinson’s new novel, “Life After Life.”. Its heroine, Ursula Todd, keeps dying, then ...
Apr 2, 2013 · On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways ...
Life After Life should have the popular success of the former and deserves to win prizes, too. It has that kind of thrill to it, of an already much-loved novelist taking a leap, and breaking through to the next level…This is a rare book that you want, Ursula-like, to start again the minute you have finished.
Apr 14, 2022 · In essence, the book emphasises the sheer randomness of life and the implications that choices have on future events; choices that we simply can't change, or indeed know the consequences of. But in Life After Life, we get a glimpse of what it might be like to do that. It's a genre-defying book in many ways.
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