by Kate Atkinson · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552776639
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«Life After Life» is the historical novel by Kate Atkinson, published by Black Swan in paperback (624 pages, in English).
Ursula Todd is born in England in 1910 during a snowstorm, but dies before taking her first breath; in another version, she survives. The novel follows Ursula as she lives through the turbulent events of the twentieth century again and again, with the chance to correct her mistakes and change the course of history.
First installment of the Todd Family saga, winner of the Costa Novel Award 2013 and adapted into a BBC series.
Aimed at readers of historical and literary fiction, with particular appeal for book clubs and speculative narratives.
Kate Atkinson is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern and magical realist elements into the plots. Her debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book Award, the precursor to the Costa Book Award, in 1995. The novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Book Award for novel in 2013 and 2015. She is also known for the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series, Case Histories.
