Book Overview
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? 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, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? Named a New York Times Best Book of the Century, Life After Life is darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original: this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0316176494
ISBN13:9780316176491
Release Date:January 2014
Publisher:Back Bay Books
Length:560 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 5.6" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Incredible And Fascinating
Published by Chellyroo , 2 years ago
This is one of my all time favorite books. I’ve read it at least 6 times. The characters are complex and provocative, the story is compelling and entrancing. The sequel is wonderful too but this one - it’s what every book should be.
A great story. Could not put it down.
Published by Maureen , 5 years ago
Kate Atkinson explores second chances and living one’s life in different ways with a sort of time travel structure. But it’s not sci fi. Very lovely tale. I reccomend A God In Ruins, her ‘companion piece’ to this book.
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