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Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)

Kate Atkinson

Start date: December 17, 2014

Finish date: January 7, 2015

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Oct 17, 2013 Astrid Lim rated it liked it

Shelves: british, historical-fiction, world-war, second-hand

I was torn between 3 or 4 stars, but decided to give it 3 (maybe 3,5?). I actually liked the idea behind this book - a girl named Ursula was given opportunities to relive her life over and over again. She didn't realize this fully, but she tried unconsciously to repair some mistakes in her past, changing history and the world to become a better place. The setting of this story is from 1910-1967, so there was two Great Wars happened during the book and this point was quite interesting for me. But ...more

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Dec 13, 2013 Carlie Van Amerongen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, 2014

I love the premise of this book - a girl being brought back to life into her own life following several untimely deaths, and the effects of her deja vu, and the questions of what really constitutes a life well lived. Although the first quarter of the book was the main character dying a baby/toddler/young child over and over and over again, and that was horrible for me. But once she managed to live past her tenth birthday, it got much easier.

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