Life After Life
  • Published: 14 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448154142
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 15 hr 29 min
  • Narrator: Fenella Woolgar

Life After Life

The global bestseller, now a major BBC series

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3 Feb 2014
EBook
14 Mar 2013
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14 Mar 2013
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Kate Atkinson's stunning new novel, about a woman who lives through the most turbulent events of the 20th century, including the London Blitz, and which asks: What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?

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 isKate Atkinson at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.
  • Published: 14 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9781448154142
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 15 hr 29 min
  • Narrator: Fenella Woolgar
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About the author

Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson is one of the world’s foremost novelists. She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prizewinning novels set around World War II are Life After Life, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award), and Transcription. She was appointed MBE for services to literature in 2011.

Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie returns in her new novel Big Sky.

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Also by Kate Atkinson

Death at the Sign of the Rook
Emotionally Weird
Not The End Of The World
Big Sky
When Will There Be Good News?
Behind The Scenes At The Museum
Transcription
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