Life After Life: The global bestseller, now a major BBC series by Kate Atkinson

Description: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 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? FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description WINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA NOVEL AWARD- the acclaimed number one bestselling novel about a woman who lives her life over and over again through the most turbulent events of the 20th century, including the London Blitz.The PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, now a major BBC1 DRAMA SERIES starring Thomasin McKenzie, Sian Clifford and James McArdle, directed by BAFTA award-winning John Crowley.Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound... one of the best novels Ive read this century Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of GONE GIRLA box of delights ... it grips the readers imagination on the first page and never lets go. HILARY MANTEL, author of THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT___________________________________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?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. Marian Keyes, author of Rachel, AgainAn exceptional writer Guardian A magnificently tender and humane novel ObserverA ferociously clever writer...a big, bold novel that is enthralling, entertaining New StatesmanExceptionally captivating New York TimesTruly brilliant...Think of Audrey Niffeneggers The Time Travelers Wife or David Nicholls One Day.. a rare book that you want to start again the minute you have finished. The Times Notes Paperback edition of the latest novel from the bestselling author of the Jackson Brodie series. This standalone work, which was shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction, follows the many lives of Ursula Todd, as shes born again and again in 1910. Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. Gillian Flynn Author Biography KATE ATKINSON is one of the worlds foremost novelists. She won the Whitbread Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Life After Life, an acclaimed BBC TV series, won several prizes including the Costa Novel Award, as did A God in Ruins. Two further historical novels - Transcription and Shrines of Gaiety - were also Sunday Times bestsellers. She has published two critically acclaimed collections of short stories- Not the End of the World and Normal Rules Dont Apply.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 and the most recent, Death at the Sign of the Rook, was a number one bestseller.Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.For information about Kates books, including her Jackson Brodie series, Review Kate Atkinsons new novel is a box of delights. Ingenious in construction, indefatigably entertaining, it grips the readers 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 Mantel *There 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. * Gillian Flynn, no1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects *Truly brilliant...Think of Audrey Niffeneggers The TimeTravelers Wife or David Nicholls One Day...[or] Martin Amiss Times Arrow...This is a rare book that you want, Ursula-like, to start again the minute you have finished. * The Times *Absolutely 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. * Marian Keyes (newsletter) *What makes Atkinson an exceptional writer...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. * Guardian *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 Mail *Deliriously inventive, sharply imagined and ultimately affecting...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]magnificently tender and humane novel. * Observer *Brilliant...more than just a terrific story about the impact of one existence on another. Atkinson can knock the socks off any rival in terms of skill and style...The tour de force of the book, though, is Atkinsons recreation of the Blitz...unputdownable * Evening Standard *Stunned with tiredness thanks to Kate Atkinsons LIFE AFTER LIFE. Couldnt stop reading. Terrific novel, may be her best yet. So enthralling, so well written, so beautifully constructed. Really, I cant fault it. Will be one of my books of the year. * Val McDermid (Twitter) *World events, reimagined characters and second chances told with warmth, wit and consummate skill. -- Fanny Blake * Woman & Home *Startlingly brilliant...endlessly rich -- James Walton * Readers Digest *Life After Life is to be applauded for its inventiveness, and for reminding us of lives vanished without trace or memory in the waste and monstrosity of war. * Literary Review *Atkinson, like Audrey Niffenegger before her with the similarly ambitious The Time Travellers Wife, is a confident enough writer to bear her high concept along well above water level * Scotsman *Atkinsons great skill is in portraying the exquisite tapestry of [life] with warmth, humour and immense humanity. * Yorkshire Post *one of the most innovative, pacy plots of any recent novel * Psychologies Magazine *Kate Atkinsons new novel is a box of delights. Ingenious in construction, indefatigably entertaining, it grips the readers 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 Mantel *There 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. -- Gillian Flynn,no1 New York Times author of Gone Girl, and Sharp ObjectsTruly brilliant...Think of Audrey Niffeneggers The TimeTravelers Wife or David Nicholls One Day...[or] Martin Amiss Times 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. -- Helen Rumbelow * The Times *What 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 * Guardian *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. -- Amber Pearson * Daily Mail * Promotional WINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA NOVEL AWARD- the acclaimed number one bestselling novel about a woman who lives her life over and over again through the most turbulent events of the 20th century, including the London Blitz. Prizes Winner of Costa Novel Award 2013 Short-listed for Womens Prize for Fiction 2013 Review Text There 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. Review Quote Kate Atkinsons new novel is a box of delights. Ingenious in construction, indefatigably entertaining, it grips the readers 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. Promotional "Headline" WINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA NOVEL AWARD- the acclaimed number one bestselling novel about a woman who lives her life over and over again through the most turbulent events of the 20th century, including the London Blitz. Details ISBN0552776637 Author Kate Atkinson Year 2014 ISBN-10 0552776637 ISBN-13 9780552776639 Media Book Publication Date 2014-01-30 Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd Imprint Black Swan Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.92 Pages 624 Language English UK Release Date 2014-01-30 AU Release Date 2014-01-30 NZ Release Date 2014-01-30 Subtitle The global bestseller, now a major BBC series Translator Michael A. Scarpitti Edited by Gnon Baba Birth 19691203 Affiliation Research Scholar, Amal Jyothi Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Kerala, India Position Director Qualifications MD Format Paperback Audience General Alternative 9781409043799 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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