This is the winner of the costa novel award. 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 t
he tale.
What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an inf
inite 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 Afte
r 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 ev
en in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the p
ast. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates
the best and worst of ourselves.
