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

Dazzling witty moving joyful mournful profound. Wildly inventive deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane. Simply put: its one of the best novels Ive read this century Gillian Flynn bestselling author of GONE GIRLA box of delights. Ingenious in construction indefatigably entertaining it grips the readers imagination on the first page and never lets go. HILARY MANTEL author of THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHTWhat 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?Life After 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 even in lifes bleakest moments and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.____________________Merging family saga with a fluid sense of time and an extraordinarily vivid sense of history at its most human level. A dizzying and dazzling tour de force Daily MailAbsolutely brilliant...it reminded me a bit of her first book Behind the Scenes at the Museum which is one of my most favourite books ever. Mirian Keyes author of Grown UpsTruly brilliant...Think of Audrey Niffeneggers The Time Travelers Wife or David Nicholls One Day...[or] Martin Amiss Times Arrow.... This is a rare book that you want to start again the minute you have finished. The Times Review Kate Atkinson’s new novel is a box of delights. Ingenious in construction indefatigably entertaining it grips the reader’s imagination on the first page and never lets go. If you wish to be moved and astonished read it. And if you want to give a dazzling present buy it for your friends. ―Hilary MantelThere arent enough breathless adjectives to describe Life After Life: Dazzling witty moving joyful mournful profound. Wildly inventive deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane. Simply put: its ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS IVE READ THIS CENTURY.Truly brilliant...Think of Audrey NiffeneggersThe TimeTravelers Wife or David NichollsOne Day...[or] Martin AmissTimes Arrow his rewinding of the Holocaust that was shortlisted for the Booker.Life After Life should have the popular success of the former and deserves to win prizes too. It has that kind of thrill to it of an already much-loved novelist taking a leap and breaking through to the next level...This is a rare book that you want Ursula-like to start again the minute you have finished. ―The TimesWhat makes Atkinson an exceptional writer - and this is her most ambitious and most gripping work to date - is that she does so with an emotional delicacy and understanding that transcend experiment or playfulness.Life After Life gives us a heroine whose fictional underpinning is permanently exposed whose artificial status is never in doubt; and yet one who feels painfully horribly real to us. -- Alex Clark ―GuardianMerging family saga with a fluid sense of time and an extraordinarily vivid sense of history at its most human level. A dizzying and dazzling tour de force. -- Amber Pearson ―Daily MailDeliriously inventive sharply imagined and ultimately affecting...The scenes set in Blitz-stricken London will stay with me forever...Atkinson has written something that amounts to so much more than the sum of its (very many) parts. It almost seems to imply that there are new and mysterious things to feel and say about the nature of life and death the passing of time fate and possibility.. . [a]mag