Life After Life

Resumen del libro

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 I've read this century' Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of GONE GIRL'A box of delights ...

it grips the reader's 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 life's 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.

Biografía del autor

Kate Atkinson (1951) obtuvo el Premio Whitbread (ahora Costa) al Mejor Libro del Año con su primera novela, "Entre bastidores". Sus cinco novelas sobre el expolicía Jackson Brodie, grandes éxitos de ventas, se convirtieron en la serie de televisión de la BBC "Case Histories", protagonizada por Jason Isaacs. Su novela "Una y otra vez" recibió el premio Costa a la Mejor Novela y el premio literario South Bank Sky Arts, y quedó finalista del Women's Prize. En 2011 le fue concedida la Orden del Imperio Británico por su contribución a la literatura y fue elegida Autora del Año de las librerías Waterstones en la ceremonia de los Premios Nacionales del Libro de 2013 en Reino Unido. <br> También disponible de Kate Atkinson en AdN: "La mecanógrafa", "Cielo interminable", "Incidentes" y "Expedientes".