Book Review: Life After Life

There were two books with the same title this year that have been loved by CPL staff. We posted a review of Jill McCorkle's Life After Life recently, and today we have two glowing reviews of Kate Atkinson's Life After Life.

For the first 100 pages or so I kept flipping back and forth rereading chapters because I knew I had missed something. Huh? Darkness fell. Ha! I stuck with it…and I’m glad I did! The stories of Ursula Todd repeat themselves over and over again, sometimes with small changes, and they lead to new possibilities! Brilliant! - Marybeth (Downtown - Admin)

Amazing. Fantastic. Clever. Imaginative. Just a few of the words that come to mind to describe this book. Ursula Todd relives her life (a life) over and over (and over) again. Small changes make all the difference -- sometimes she survives, sometimes she doesn't. The characters are well-developed and this story is brilliantly told. Life After Life is so wonderfully written that you'll keep reading just to know how darkness falls again and how everything connects. If you like historical fiction and non-traditional timelines, read this book. - Melissa (Downtown)