Life After Life: A Novel

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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?
Named a New York Times Best Book of the Century, Life After Life is darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original: this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Back Bay Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 7, 2014
Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316176494
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316176491
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.45 x 1.6 x 8.25 inches
Book 1 of 2 ‏ : ‎ Todd Family
Best Sellers Rank: #17,668 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #58 in Historical British & Irish Literature #899 in Literary Fiction (Books) #1,140 in Suspense Thrillers
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