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Life after life

Kate Atkinson

Life After Life" follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again.

Format Paperback

ISBN 9780552776639

Publication Date 30 Jan 2014

Subject Adult novels

Suitable for Secondary (Year 12,Year 13)

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Paperback	14 Apr 2022	£6.65 Life after life
Hardback	14 Mar 2013	£14.05 Life after life

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Summary

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 the tale.

What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite 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?

Shortlisted for Women's Prize for Fiction 2013.

NOTE : This has been classified as adult fiction and so has not been read in full by the Peters reviewing team. Content may potentially be unsuitable for younger readers

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Adult novels

Key stage

Key Stage 5

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Illustrations

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Publisher

Black Swan

Pub. date

30 Jan 2014

Pub. history

Hbk pub in 2013

Edition

New in Paperback

ISBN

9780552776639

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Binding

Paperback

Pages

480

Width

127mm

Height

198mm

Weight

438g

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A-list adult

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Author biography

Kate Atkinson is one of the world's foremost novelists. Her most recent novel, Shrines of Gaiety, set in the aftermath of the First World War, is a Sunday Times bestseller. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her three critically lauded and prize-winning novels set around the Second World War are Life After Life, an acclaimed 2022 BBC TV series, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award) and Transcription. Her bestselling literary crime novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie, Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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