This book is getting so many rave reviews, I feel like I am a black sheep just telling people it did not work.Īs I said before, there is nothing wrong with the writing Kate Atkinson has created this lyrical narrative and I did find myself being swept away in the words. The book is clever, but it tries too hard to be clever and it didn’t really turn out the way it should have for me anyway. The premise of the book makes it sound really good but let’s face it it is just Groundhog Day in disguise. Sure Kate Atkinson has this trippy ability to create this bleak world while still managing to add some wit and compassion but it wasn’t the writing that was at fault. I feel like I’m the only person on the planet that thought this book was overhyped and over rated. Life after Life tells the story of Ursula’s lives, as with each new life she makes small changes that send her on a completely different path. During that same snowstorm she was born again and lives to tell the tale again and again.

Ursula Todd is born in a snowstorm in England in 1910 but dies before she can take her first breath. I feel like I’m the only person on the planet that thought this book was What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? Ursula Todd is born in a snowstorm in England in 1910 but dies before she can take her first breath. 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.ĭoes 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?. 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.

She dies before she can draw her first breath. On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. For as she grows, she also die What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? 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.

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