![]() ![]() She is the author of Life After Life Transcription Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a Whitbread Book of the Year winner the story collection Not the End of the World and five novels in the Jackson Brodie crime series, which was adapted into the BBC TV show Case Histories. Protagonist Ursula Todd discovers she has the extraordinary ability to restart her life from scratch, over and over, and finds that even the smallest of choices can have a big impact. Kate Atkinson is an international bestselling novelist, as well as playwright and short story writer. Set against the backdrop of World War II, the book explores the theme of what one would do differently if one could live life over again. 2 thoughts on Sunday Book Review: Life after Life by Kate Atkinson Amanda Day 18th June 2014 at 10:34 am I read this book this year for a book club and really struggled with it. Her three critically lauded and prizewinning novels set around World War II are Life After Life, A God in Ruins (both winners of the Costa Novel Award), and Transcription. She won the Costa Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Temple Hill creative executive Jaclyn Huntling brought the project into the company. Kate Atkinson is one of the worlds foremost novelists. Semi Chellas and Esta Spalding are adapting the book, which became a critical hit and a New York Times best-seller after it was published in April by Reagan Arthur Books, an imprint of Little, Brown. Lionsgate has acquired the big-screen rights to Kate Atkinson’s best-selling novel Life After Life, with Twilight producer Temple Hill Entertainment on board to produce.
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