{"product_id":"life-after-life-9780552776639","title":"Life After Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Atkinson’s new novel is a box of delights. Ingenious in construction, indefatigably entertaining, it grips the reader’s 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 *\u003cbr\u003eThere aren't enough  breathless adjectives to describe \u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. Wildly inventive, deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane. Simply put: it's ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS I'VE READ THIS CENTURY. * Gillian Flynn, no1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects *\u003cbr\u003eTruly brilliant...Think of Audrey Niffenegger's \u003ci\u003eThe TimeTraveler's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e or David Nicholl's \u003ci\u003eOne Day\u003c\/i\u003e...[or] Martin Amis's \u003ci\u003eTimes Arrow\u003c\/i\u003e...This is a rare book that you want, Ursula-like, to start again the minute you have finished. * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eAbsolutely 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) *\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes Atkinson an exceptional writer...is that she does so with an emotional delicacy and understanding that transcend experiment or playfulness. \u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003eMerging 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 *\u003cbr\u003eDeliriously 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 *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant...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 Atkinson's recreation of the Blitz...unputdownable * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eStunned with tiredness thanks to Kate Atkinson's LIFE AFTER LIFE. Couldn't stop reading. Terrific novel, may be her best yet. So enthralling, so well written, so beautifully constructed. Really, I can't fault it. Will be one of my books of the year. * Val McDermid (Twitter) *\u003cbr\u003eWorld events, reimagined characters and second chances told with warmth, wit and consummate skill. -- Fanny Blake * Woman \u0026amp; Home *\u003cbr\u003eStartlingly brilliant...endlessly rich -- James Walton * Reader's Digest *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003eAtkinson, like Audrey Niffenegger before her with the similarly ambitious The Time Traveller's Wife, is a confident enough writer to bear her high concept along well above water level * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003eAtkinson's great skill is in portraying the exquisite tapestry of [life] with warmth, humour and immense humanity. * Yorkshire Post *\u003cbr\u003eone of the most innovative, pacy plots of any recent novel * Psychologies Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eKate Atkinson’s new novel is a box of delights. Ingenious in construction, indefatigably entertaining, it grips the reader’s 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere aren't enough  breathless adjectives to describe \u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. Wildly inventive, deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane. \u003cbr\u003eSimply put: it's ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS I'VE READ THIS CENTURY.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Gillian Flynn,no1 New York Times author of Gone Girl, and Sharp Objects\u003cbr\u003eTruly brilliant...Think of Audrey Niffenegger's \u003ci\u003eThe TimeTraveler's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e or David Nicholl's \u003ci\u003eOne Day\u003c\/i\u003e...[or] Martin Amis's \u003ci\u003eTimes Arrow\u003c\/i\u003e, his rewinding of the Holocaust that was shortlisted for the Booker. \u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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. \u003ci\u003eLife After Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003eMerging 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 *","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735288787287,"sku":"9780552776639","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780552776639.jpg?v=1723810112","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-after-life-9780552776639","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}