Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
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- Very Good
- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
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Random House. Very Good. 128mm / 197mm. Paperback. 2014. 621 pages. <br>WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally g ot it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is b orn and dies before she can take her first breath. During a sno wstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tel l ... .
Synopsis
KATE ATKINSON won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year Prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum , and has been a critically acclaimed international author ever since. Her most recent four bestsellers featured the former private detective Jackson Brodie: Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog . She was appointed an MBE in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Reviews
On Jan 4 2016, CloggieDownunder said:
Life After Life is a book of the Todd Family by award-winning British author, Kate Atkinson. Ursula Todd is born during a snowstorm on the night of 11th February, 1910. She does this again and again, and this fact (amongst others) remains constant throughout the telling of Ursula’s lives, but, of course, there are also differences.
When, seemingly through chance, she does survive her birth, and the trials and potentially fatal mishaps that plague her childhood, Ursula’s lives revolve around the family that inhabits Fox Corner, parents, siblings, a rather wild paternal aunt who visits, neighbours and friends.
As an adult, Ursula’s life, along with those around her, is profoundly affected by war. Her favourite brother, Teddy loses his life when he is shot down over Berlin. But is there something she can do to stop seemingly inevitable events from occurring?
What a talented author Kate Atkinson is! She explores the idea that one might be able to change history, given enough chances, and does so in a familiar setting, with characters that easily find their way into the reader’s heart (well, except for Maurice, that is). Add to that the interesting perspectives of certain well-known events: the London Blitz from the perspective of an Air Raid Precautions warden; the bombing of Berlin from the point of view of the German common people.
Atkinson’s depth of research is apparent in every chapter. Each of Ursula’s incarnations reveals a little more of the family, their history and character, as well as historic events like the influenza epidemic of 1918. From a literary perspective, the use of multiple incarnations is a novel device that allows her to try out a multitude of different life events with just one character.
While this is nothing like her Jackson Brodie books, fans of her work will not be disappointed. Luckily, they will be able to extend the pleasure (and get another dose of the Todd family and Fox Corner) in the companion volume, A god In Ruins. Another brilliant offering from this exceptional author.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2149i
- Title
- Life After Life
- Author
- Kate Atkinson
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0552776637
- ISBN 13
- 9780552776639
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- Great, Britain, --, History, --, 20th, century, --, Fiction,, Dewey:, 823.92
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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