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World Book Club: Kate Atkinson: Life After Life

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Kate Atkinson

06/10/2018 GMT

Kate Atkinson: Life After Life

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Kate Atkinson: Life After Life

Kate Atkinson discusses her celebrated novel Life After Life

Kate Atkinson discusses her celebrated novel Life After Life.

This month on World Book Club award-winning British writer Kate Atkinson discusses her celebrated novel Life After Life. In it Atkinson poses the question: What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born and then 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, 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?

Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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