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Life After Life
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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Life After Life
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Publisher's Summary
Here is Kate Atkinson at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.
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, she finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past.
What the critics say
Long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
"Don't make the mistake of thinking that the novel itself is anything other than illuminating.... The book transcends its subject matter to become a treatise on how to be human.... Art is long and life is short, but not too short to treat yourself to the pleasures of Kate Atkinson's prose along the way." (The Globe and Mail)
"Gripping... Breathless.... A masterful balancing act. Atkinson keeps the reader...constantly on edge, expecting the darkness to fall at any moment.... Life After Life is funny, thought-provoking and poignant. It combines the charms of hearth and home with the ravages of wartime. It's a love letter to a certain kind of English life but also as engrossing as a thriller."(Winnipeg Free Press)
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- M. Janette McMillan
- 2019-06-01
One of my favourites
This is an astonishing book and one if my favourites. I didn’t think it could be any better but this performance and the experience of listening to it took it to another level. Now to listen to A God in Ruins.
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- Kia
- 2019-06-30
Interesting concept but way too long
It took a long time for this to get interesting. The repetitiveness didn’t bother me so much as the long duration of nothing happening. It should be edited down to half its current length.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-12-07
slow and hard to follow
Jumped narrators and timelines without great flow. Stopped reading at hr3 because of little happening
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- Bonnie R
- 2019-07-18
Very clever
I very much enjoyed this. At the beginning I wasn’t sure if I would but that changed quickly. Thought provoking and excellent performance
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- Steven LEITH
- 2022-07-29
Ready, Set, Repeat
This is just 100+ short stories of how someone's life COULD have been with lots and lots and lots of repetition. Well performed, and the writing style was good, but the story was so lack luster.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-09-01
Confusing
Not a book that you can multitask with. The time lines were confusing and the characters were confusing. Not my favourite
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- Simeon Doucette
- 2023-12-27
My expectations were too high
I found the plot too repetitive and the style too cumbersome. The story was sometimes difficult to follow.
I usually really enjoy these types of stories … but, unfortunately, not this time.
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- Under Ether
- 2019-12-30
Interesting
I enjoyed listening to this book a lot. The narrator was amazing and brought a unique perspective to each character. The story is peculiar, although perhaps became somewhat repetitive towards the end.. however there were enough interesting elements throughout that carried the story forward.
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- emma boutilier
- 2019-02-07
Brilliantly written, beautifully read!
A wonderful work, written with wisdom, whimsy, and wit. For those who would like a fantastical tale, retold with compelling and disturbingly human character.
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- Devonius
- 2022-02-06
Excellent do-over story
I really liked this book. Very well written, and the narration was outstanding. We’ve seen this kind of story before, but the character development here lifts it out of the “just another” category. There were a couple of life trajectories for which I really needed that arc to continue despite the loss of the protagonist, I was so invested in the narrative. Did character X get their comeuppance? Was justice ever served? I won’t know for sure. But it’s OK not knowing.
So, yeah, well written and well handled, with characters you come to know very well and care about.
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