Life After Life
On a cold and snowy night
in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and
his wife. Sadly, 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 any number of ways. Clearly history (and Kate Atkinson)
have plans for her: In Ursula rests nothing less than the fate of civilization.
Wildly inventive, darkly
comic, startlingly poignant — this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best,
playing with time and history, telling a story that is breathtaking for both
its audacity and its endless satisfactions.
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