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# Life After Life: The global bestseller, now a major BBC series

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Review: An audacious & brilliant novel by Atkinson - Having first read Atkinson's "A God in Ruins', I was tempted to take up the preceding volume, "Life After Life" & I found her at her absolute best, playing with the lives of the Todd family.While in "A God in Ruins ", it was Ted ,a male, the central protagonist, it is Ursulla, his elder sister the heroine of this enthralling book.Atkinson's superb skills as an author is on full display while presenting the various scenarios her characters can undergo alternately with varying consequences & reactions from the readers.For example, Ursulla suffers death in a whole range of ways , from child birth, drowning, suicide, murder etc.While some readers can be put off by this kind of jugglery & uncertainty, I found it exciting that the author is willing to test the limits of our ' willing suspension of disbelief'. She is able to pull off such literary tricks with elan because of her basic strengths as a writer. Her female characters such as Izzie, Sylvie & Pamela are strongly drawn evoking reader empathy. Even the family dogs in an Atkinson novel have character. She is also great in creating the right atmosphere ( you will be dazzled by her ghoulish descriptions of the London Blitz ) As she claims in her Notes after the text, she has indeed succeeded in bringing out the 'Englishness' of her characters ('one does as one must & then has tea' ).This audacious novel drives home beautifully a central philosophical theme , viz,the capricious nature of Fate, which the Todd family psychologist puts across as 'amor fati' (love of fate ).
Review: Absolutely worth the hunt! - I spent a long time hunting for this book...and it was totally worth the hunt. It's an amazing premise..what if you got to live your life over and over ..till you got it right. Highly readable..you feel the pain, the angst and the joy of the characters. It will make you think about choices, how one choice, one decision made differently could have lead to a different life. Highly recommend. The book can get a little confusing..but the author has done a brilliant job of making each character someone you believe, want to meet ( or not)...and empathise with..I was sad when the book ended...I wish there had been another window into Ursula's life...after life....

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #674,370 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #82 in Military Romance (Books) #86 in Time Travel Romance #139 in 20th Century Historical Romance (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 27,558 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An audacious & brilliant novel by Atkinson
*by R***N on 7 April 2016*

Having first read Atkinson's "A God in Ruins', I was tempted to take up the preceding volume, "Life After Life" & I found her at her absolute best, playing with the lives of the Todd family.While in "A God in Ruins ", it was Ted ,a male, the central protagonist, it is Ursulla, his elder sister the heroine of this enthralling book.Atkinson's superb skills as an author is on full display while presenting the various scenarios her characters can undergo alternately with varying consequences & reactions from the readers.For example, Ursulla suffers death in a whole range of ways , from child birth, drowning, suicide, murder etc.While some readers can be put off by this kind of jugglery & uncertainty, I found it exciting that the author is willing to test the limits of our ' willing suspension of disbelief'. She is able to pull off such literary tricks with elan because of her basic strengths as a writer. Her female characters such as Izzie, Sylvie & Pamela are strongly drawn evoking reader empathy. Even the family dogs in an Atkinson novel have character. She is also great in creating the right atmosphere ( you will be dazzled by her ghoulish descriptions of the London Blitz ) As she claims in her Notes after the text, she has indeed succeeded in bringing out the 'Englishness' of her characters ('one does as one must & then has tea' ).This audacious novel drives home beautifully a central philosophical theme , viz,the capricious nature of Fate, which the Todd family psychologist puts across as 'amor fati' (love of fate ).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Absolutely worth the hunt!
*by S***A on 3 June 2014*

I spent a long time hunting for this book...and it was totally worth the hunt. It's an amazing premise..what if you got to live your life over and over ..till you got it right. Highly readable..you feel the pain, the angst and the joy of the characters. It will make you think about choices, how one choice, one decision made differently could have lead to a different life. Highly recommend. The book can get a little confusing..but the author has done a brilliant job of making each character someone you believe, want to meet ( or not)...and empathise with..I was sad when the book ended...I wish there had been another window into Ursula's life...after life....

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ First book I bought this year
*by B***U on 7 March 2019*

This was my first purchase of Author Kate Atkinson, out of all her books this book steals the attention to bought it first.. hope I read this one soon Thanks for the amazing delivery, never disappoints when it comes to books

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- Life After Life
- A God in Ruins: Costa Novel Award Winner 2015

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