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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.
- Kate Atkinson
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, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.
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 ...
Jan 7, 2014 · 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 ...
Mar 6, 2013 · Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – review. K ate Atkinson's new novel is a marvel, a great big confidence trick – but one that invites the reader to take part in the deception. In fact, it is ...
Mar 25, 2013 · LIFE AFTER LIFE. By Kate Atkinson. 529 pages. Regan Arthur Books. $27.99. A version of this article appears in print on , Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Different ...
