Life After Life

Life After Life

Published:
2013-04-02
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ISBN:
9780385671385
Meeting:
FBC Recommended R2.032
Pages:
480
File size (e-book):
2.2 MB
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Book Availability:
available
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no
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enabled

Description:

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?

During 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 to?

Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again.  With wit and compassion, she finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past.  Here is Kate Atkinson at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

Author Details:

Kate Atkinson is a contemporary English novelist, playwright, and short story writer, born in York in 1951. She gained international recognition with her debut novel, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum", which won the Whitbread Book of the Year award. Known for intricate plots and complex characters, Atkinson is also the author of the Jackson Brodie crime series, adapted into a BBC television show, and the critically acclaimed novels "Life After Life" and "A God in Ruins".