Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson. From the New York Times: "Ursula Todd keeps dying, then dying again. She dies when she is bering born, on a snowy night in 1910. As a child, she drowns, falls off a roof and contracts influenza. Later, she commits suicide and is murdered. She is killed during the German bombing of London in World War II and ends her life in the ruins of Berlin in 1945. Each time Ursula dies, Atkinson ... resurrects her and sets her on one of the many alternate courses that her destiny might have taken.... Atkinson nimbly succeeds in keeping the novel from becoming confusing." Atkinson's bookOne Good Turn
was on the list last year. [Ed: Read One Good Turn and loved it, btw].
