Life After Life: The global bestsell..., Atkinson, Kate

Description

Life After Life: The global bestsell..., Atkinson, Kate. Author:Atkinson Kate. Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves. Can't find what you're looking for? Home page About us Feedback Payment Delivery Customer Service Contact us Shop by Price $10.34 $10.35 - $12.34 $12.35 - $14.34 $14.35 - $16.34 $16.35+ Shop pages Home page Payment Delivery Customer Service About the seller Need help? Send an eBay message Newsletter Add World of Books to your favourites and receive email newsletters about special promotions! General Interest LIFE AFTER LIFE Product Details: Category: Books ISBN: 0552776637 Title: LIFE AFTER LIFE The Fast Free Shipping Author: Atkinson Kate Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd Year Published: 2014 Number of Pages: 624 Book Binding: Paperback / softback Prizes: Winner of Costa Novel Award 2013 Short-listed for Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 Book Condition: GOOD SKU: CIN0552776637G Item description The PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, now a major BBC1 DRAMA SERIES starring Thomasin McKenzie, Sian Clifford and James McArdle, directed by BAFTA award-winning John Crowley.'Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound... one of the best novels I've read this century' Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of GONE GIRL'A box of delights ... it grips the reader's imagination on the first page and never lets go.' HILARY MANTEL, author of THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHTWhat if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.During 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?Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves. 'Merging 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 'Absolutely 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, author of Rachel, Again 'An exceptional writer' Guardian '[A] magnificently tender and humane novel' Observer 'A ferociously clever writer...a big, bold novel that is enthralling, entertainin g' New Statesman 'Exceptionally captivating' New York Times'Truly brilliant. ..Think of Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife or David Nicholl's One Day .. a rare book that you want to start again the minute you have finished.' The Times Please note, the image is for illustrative purposes only, actual book cover, binding and edition may vary. Payment Delivery Customer Service About Us We only accept payments made through PayPal, either via a credit / debit card or a PayPal account. The average shipping times for our orders are as follows: North America: 2-9 Days If for some reason your order has not arrived within 15 Business days please get in contact with us so that we can help you. World of Books USA offer a hassle free money back guarantee for your product, (excluding shipping & handling). We are committed to ensuring each customer is entirely satisfied with their purchase and our service. If you have any issues or concerns, please contact our customer service team within 60 days of purchase and they will be more than happy to help. World of Books USA was founded in 2005. We offer great value books on a wide range of subjects and we now ship over two million orders each year to satisfied customers throughout the world. We take great pride in our prompt delivery, first class customer service and excellent feedback. While we do our best to provide good quality books for you to read, there is no escaping the fact that it has been owned and read by someone else before you. It may well show signs of wear and tear, however each one of our books is hand-checked by our dedicated team for defects before shipping. World of Books sells quality used products at competitive prices to over 2 million customers worldwide each year. We want your experience with World of Books to be enjoyable and problem free. Over the past 8 years World of Books has seen the inventory grow from 1000 to over 1 Million books in stock. We all like the idea of saving a bit of cash, so when we found out how many good quality used products are out there - we just had to let you know! All of our items are checked for quality before they go on sale and we like to think that our prices mean that no item is beyond your budget. At World of Books we are committed to minimising our environmental impact. Each month we recycle over 2.3 million books, saving over 12,500 metric tonnes of books a year from going straight into landfill sites. All of our paper waste is recycled within the UK and turned into corrugated cardboard. We believe that it is a travesty to simply throw away a used book or DVD when there is nothing wrong with it - we believe in giving each book or DVD the chance of finding a new home Home page About us Feedback Payment Delivery Customer Service Contact us