Life after Life

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"Kate Atkinson is a marvei. There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describé Life After Life: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. Wildly inventive, deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane. Simply put: It's one of the best novels I've read this century." -GILLIAN FLVNN, author of Gone Girl
WHAT IF YOU COULD L1VE AGAIN AND AGAIN, UNT1L YOU GOT IT RIGHT?
On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. 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 alsó dies, repeat-edly, in any number of ways. Ursula's world is in turmoil, and she faces the unspeakable evil of the greatest war in history. What power and force can one woman exert over the fate of civi-lization — if only she has the chance?
a| KATE ATKINSON is the
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FICTIOH
A BACK BAY BOOK
"Kate Atkinson is a marvei. There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describé Life After Life: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. Wildly inventive, deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane. Simply put: It's one of the best novels I've read this century." -GILLIAN FLVNN, author of Gone Girl
WHAT IF YOU COULD L1VE AGAIN AND AGAIN, UNT1L YOU GOT IT RIGHT?
On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. 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 alsó dies, repeat-edly, in any number of ways. Ursula's world is in turmoil, and she faces the unspeakable evil of the greatest war in history. What power and force can one woman exert over the fate of civi-lization — if only she has the chance?
a| KATE ATKINSON is the
2 internationally bestselling 0 author of eight novels, ÜL including Case Histories
"A dazzling, intricate, and entertaining növel." -MICHAEL BERRY, San Francisco Chronicle
"You can't put down Life After Life
until you finish it, and then I suggest you read it a second time." -BOB H00VER, Dallas Morning News
"Audacious, the kind of sweeping virtuoso epic that actually earns overheated book-jacket
phrases like 'tour de force!' What Atkinson has mastered: shining a light on how full life is of choices and chance, and how lucky we are to live it." — tEAH GREENBLATT, Entertainment Weekly
"Life After Life is a hypnotic dance of causality and chance, in which Ursula makes
genuine progress____Atkinson makes every one
of Ursula's lives, as well as the lives of those she touches, feel inestimably precious." -LAURA MILLER, Sálon
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