Life After Life: A Novel

Kate Atkinson

Apr 2013 · Hachette Audio · Narrated by Fenella Woolgar

About this audiobook

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?

Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original: this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.

Ratings and reviews

It's kind of a head scratcher...A woman experiences multiple life times,dying in one way or another and being born again as the same woman. Each time she remembers somethings from her previous life,or has strange feelings that lead her to stop her death from occurring. There were some threads of the story that didn't go anywhere or connect to anything else. although i really enjoyed the story, i wish the strings all tied together in the end. I'm not a great literary critic so i may have just missed the point.

About the author

Kate Atkinson's first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, was named England's Whitbread Book of the Year in 1996. Since then, she has written eleven more ground-breaking, bestselling books. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.