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A God in Ruins (Todd Family, #2)

Kate Atkinson

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Aug 25, 2015 Sarah rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, england, historical-fiction, wwii

I didn't want this book to end, but couldn't put it down either. A God in Ruins is the companion book to Life After Life, which I liked a lot but didn't love. It isn't necessarily a sequel, and it could stand alone, but I think the reader would benefit from that story first. And maybe it was my disjointed reading of Life After Life that detracted from my enjoyment of that novel, but I really loved this one.
Where Life After Life is Ursula Todd's story, this is about her beloved younger brother, ...more

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Aug 17, 2015 Jenny rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2015

I don't really quite know how to describe the book other than 'tragically beautiful', to steal from Galinda in Wicked.

A God in Ruins is companion novel to Life After Life, which I read and didn't like as much as this book. It's a novel that will stay with you; I want to start it over and read it again. ...more

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