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Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson · 2013

Literary Fiction · ranked #90 in category

Ursula Todd is born in 1910 and dies — and is born again, and dies again — repeatedly, each life varying slightly from the last. Living through the same decades of the 20th century in different ways, she is moved closer and closer to a specific moment that might change everything. Atkinson's formally inventive novel asks what we would do if we could do it again.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2013 · 2010s
Author
Kate Atkinson
Standing
Essential Read

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