Life After Life Reading Order

Life After Life (2013) by Kate Atkinson is a novel in which Ursula Todd is born on a snowy February night in 1910 in an English country house — and then born again, and again, living each life to a different end before dying and starting over. Some lives are short; some are long; some take Ursula through the Blitz, through Nazi Germany, through marriage and loss and ordinary middle age. The novel does not explain the mechanism of Ursula's repeated lives, nor does Ursula understand them — she is guided only by a sense of déjà vu and a compulsion to choose differently when she can feel that something is wrong. It won the Costa Novel Award in 2013, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize, and was adapted for television by the BBC in 2022.