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Tags: Fiction
Summary
Here is Kate Atkinson at her most profound and inventive, in
a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.
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.