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Life after life, a novel, Kate Atkinson

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Life after life, a novel, Kate Atkinson

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Life after life

Responsibility statement

Kate Atkinson

Sub title

a novel

Summary

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an 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 also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can, will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original.--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Snow (11 February 1910) -- Four seasons fill the measure of the year (11 February 1910, May 1910, June 1914) -- War (June 1914, July 1914, January 1915, 20 January 1915) -- Armistice July 1918, 11 Novemebr 1918, 12 November 1918) -- Be ye men of valor (November 1930, December 1930) -- Like a fox in an hole (September 1923, December 1923, 11 February 1926, May 1926, August 1926, June 1932) -- A lovely day tomorrow (August 1926, 2 September 1939, April 1940, September 1940, November 1940) -- The land of begin again (August 1933, August 1939, April 1945) -- The broad sunlit uplands (May 1945) -- The end of the beginning -- Peace (February 1947) -- A long hard war (September 1940, October 1940, November 1940, May 1941, November 1943, February 1947, June 1967)

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