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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

Ursula lives life after life with subtle changes taking place during each one. Some of her lives are long and some are very brief. It gave one a lot to think about, especially about time and choices. Many may wonder about their own lives and the choices they have made and how things might have been different if an alternate course had been taken. Reading this book about Ursula allows one to see the repercussions of making different choices and how that changes things in one's life. This book is ripe with well-developed characters and an intriguing storyline which could easily be bungled in a less accomplished writer.  Atkinson takes the reader on a journey which seamlessly goes from a quiet country home, to London at the height of the Blitz and even to Berchtesgaden and Hitler’s inner circle.  This book isn’t about death, but more about life.  About our possible paths, about family, about history, and about ripples and traps and the horrors of war. 



Recommended by Monica Shine

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