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, 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 in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.
About the Author
Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her four bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. Her latest novel Life After Life was shortlisted for the Womens (formerly Orange) Prize, the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Award and won the 2013 Costa Novel Award. She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queens Birthday Honours List and was voted Waterstones UK Author of the Year at the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards.
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers |
| Publication Year | 2014 January |
| ISBN-13 | 9780552779685 |
| ISBN-10 | 0552779687 |
| Language | English |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | 624 Pages |
| Book Type | Fiction Book |
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