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I couldn't put this one down, even though I never wanted it to end. Such a lovely story. I highly recommend the audio book; Fenella Woolgar's voice is captivating. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_275625206" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_275625206"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_275625206" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_275625206" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_275625206"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/bookjockeymeg" target="_top">bookjockeymeg</a> | Nov 21, 2024 | <a href="/review/275625206"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_275028922" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/12877924" data-workid="12877924" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div><b>Wow.</b><br><br>This is a unique novel. I’ve read about people being reborn or trying out different lives before, but never like this. Ursula is born in 1910. She dies. She is born again. She dies again… She is born again. The author replays the same events for us in different ways, from different perspectives, over and over again. Sometimes there is a new twist, a new thing happens and Ursula’s life twists in turn. The reader also sees characters from an unexpected angle. And the book is unputdownable. This takes skill. This takes courage, and complete trust in your readers. <br><br>It made me think about how fragile the path of an individual fate is, how small things can have enormous consequences.<br><br>The characters have life, colour, love, kindness, humour, resilience, bravery, nastiness, awfulness, cruelty. There is so much tragedy. I have spent this week not really living my life, even when I wasn’t reading – I was reliving the Blitz over and over again. I was in Berlin in 1945. This is what good historical fiction, should do, pull you on, giving you a sense of time and place. I feel wrung out.<br><br>This book somehow made me a different (better?) person – like a gear inside me, moving slightly. Click.<br><br>The ending is precious. <br><br>I adored the writing. It’s remarkably humane. Some quotes:<br><br><i>“Hugh blinked at such blunt terminology falling from the lips of his recently virginal bride. (One presumed. One hoped.)”<br><br>“A little whimsy never hurt anyone.”<br>“Strictly speaking though,” Hugh said, “can a house be a corner? Isn’t it at one?”<br>So this is marriage, Sylvie thought.<br><br>”Bridget seemed to spend a lot of time trying to cheer Clarence up. Ursula supposed she was rehearsing for marriage.”<br><br>“You should go home, dear,” he said, “the rain’s stopped,” as though it were the rain that had spoiled her night and not the Luftwaffe.</i> <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_275028922" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_275028922"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_275028922" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_275028922" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_275028922"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Alexandra_book_life" target="_top">Alexandra_book_life</a> | Nov 15, 2024 | <a href="/review/275028922"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_273712479" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/12877924" data-workid="12877924" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>I could say so much about this novel, but I'll just say I think it's a masterpiece. A time travel story for people who like literary fiction and historical fiction. It's not cheerful, though! Also by a cosmically lucky coincidence, my library has just abolished overdue fines which I would otherwise have--this book is a doorstop. I would love to hear everything the author had to say about the origins of this story and her process. I am amazed to learn there is another book about one of the important characters because it doesn't seem as though that would be possible. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273712479" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273712479"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273712479" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273712479" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273712479"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/jollyavis" target="_top">jollyavis</a> | Oct 20, 2024 | <a href="/review/273712479"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_273620378" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/12877924" data-workid="12877924" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>I really enjoyed the writing in this book. I tend to go back and forth between trashy romance books and well-written novels and I was ready for some good writing. <br><br>The stories within the novel are engrossing and I felt a part of the Todd family. The book doesn't follow a "normal" story arch, but makes you reflect as you go and fill in the blanks. <br><br>A worthy read. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273620378" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273620378"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273620378" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273620378" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273620378"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/jenbanks208" target="_top">jenbanks208</a> | Oct 18, 2024 | <a href="/review/273620378"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_273473139" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/12877924" data-workid="12877924" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0316176486.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>The title of this made me think "life after death", like what comes after this life. But it's just a repetition of the same life, after same life, after same life. It's beautifully written and occasionally the repeated experiences bring new developments, but I think this needed to be shorter and tighter so the differences were more pronounced. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273473139" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273473139"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273473139" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273473139" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273473139"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/KallieGrace" target="_top">KallieGrace</a> | Oct 15, 2024 | <a href="/review/273473139"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class='reviewnav'><div class="right"><strong><a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,3,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','12877924','',false, null, 'profile');return false;">date<span class="sortArrow"> ▼</span></a></strong> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,2,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','12877924','',false, null, 'profile'); return false;">votes</a></div>Showing 1-5 of 583 (<a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',5,0,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','12877924','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">next</a> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,0,3,'wp_reviews',10000,'','12877924','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">show all</a>)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_53" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer" style="float: right;"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews" class="blacklink" title="Help"><img style="vertical-align:middle;" class="helpIcon" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/helpq.png" alt="?"></a></span></span></div> <a name="publishedreviews"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'mediareviews', 'u_5139ce06', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Published reviews</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_5139ce06" style="display:block;"><div id="mediareviews_container"><div id="mediareviews"><table class="sa_tools" id="u_53644954_link"><tr><td id="left">7 reviews</td><td id="center"><a href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'workid':'12877924'});return false;">add a review</a></td><td id="right"> thingScore <a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews"><span class="mre_score mre_score_good">93</span></a></td></tr></table><div class="bookReview" mr_id="43558" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_4973e6be" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_43558" class="commentText">I absolutley loved Life After Life. It's so brilliant and existential, and I really responded to all of the 'what ifs' and 'if onlys' that she plays with.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/Sylak">Sylak</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'43558', 'workid':'12877924'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><span class="nowrap mre_source">Stylist [Issue 338]</span>, <span class="nowrap">Emily Blunt</span> <span rawdate="1476244800" class="nowrap">(Oct 12, 2016)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="28619" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_eed671f4" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_28619" class="commentText">Atkinson’s juggling a lot at once — and nimbly succeeds in keeping the novel from becoming confusing.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/melissarochelle">melissarochelle</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'28619', 'workid':'12877924'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/books/review/life-after-life-by-kate-atkinson.html?pagewanted=all" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The New York Times</span>, <span class="nowrap">Francine Prose</span></a> <span rawdate="1366948800" class="nowrap">(Apr 26, 2013)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="28618" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_3aa4332c" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_28618" class="commentText">For the other extraordinary thing is that, despite the horrors, this is a warm and humane book. This is partly because the felt sense of life is so powerful and immediate. Whatever the setting, it has been thoroughly imagined. Most of the characters are agreeable. They speak well and often wittily. When, like Ursula’s eldest brother, Maurice, they are not likeable, they are treated in the spirit of comedy. The humour is rich. Once you have adapted yourself to the novel’s daring structure and accepted its premise that life is full of unexplored possibilities, the individual passages offer a succession of delights. A family saga? Yes, but a wonderful and rewarding variation on a familiar form.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/vancouverdeb">vancouverdeb</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'28618', 'workid':'12877924'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/books/reviews-and-news/book-review-life-after-life-by-kate-atkinson-1-2853105" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">New Scotsman</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="28617" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_60f15165" title="7.0 Stars" aria-title="7.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-u.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_28617" class="commentText">This is, without doubt, Atkinson’s best novel since her prizewinning debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and a serious step forwards to realising her ambition to write a contemporary version of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. A ferociously clever writer, she has recast her interest in mothers and daughters and the seemingly unimportant, quotidian details of life to produce a big, bold novel that is enthralling, entertaining and experimental. It is not perfect – the second half of the book, for example, could have done with one less dead end – but I would be astonished if it does not carry off at least one major prize.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/vancouverdeb">vancouverdeb</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'28617', 'workid':'12877924'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2013/03/reviewed-life-after-life-kate-atkinson-kate-atkinson" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">New Statesman</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="28616" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_b5db06c8" title="7.0 Stars" aria-title="7.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-u.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_28616" class="commentText">Aficionados of Kate Atkinson's novels – this is the eighth – will tell you that she writes two sorts: the "literary" kind, exemplified by her Whitbread Prize-winning debut Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and the Jackson Brodie crime thrillers. In reality, the distinction is superfluous. Atkinson is a literary writer who likes experimenting with different forms, and her books appeal to a huge audience, full stop. However, for those still keen on these discriminations, Life After Life is one of the "literary" ones. As with the Brodies, Atkinson steers with a light touch, despite the grimness of the subject matter...The novels of Kate Atkinson habitually shuffle past and present, but Life After Life takes the shuffling to such extremes that the reader has to hold on to his hat. It's more than a storytelling device. Ursula and her therapist discuss theories of time. He tells her that it is circular, but she claims that it's a palimpsest. The writer has a further purpose. Elsewhere, Atkinson is quoted as saying: "I'm very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing." It's impossible not to be sympathetic toward Ursula, who yearns to save the people she loves and has been blessed – or cursed – with the ability to do it.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/vancouverdeb">vancouverdeb</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'28616', 'workid':'12877924'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/review-life-after-life-by-kate-atkinson-8527722.html" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Independent</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div id="u_53644954" style="display:none;"><div class="bookReview" mr_id="28615" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_8cb3b4b2" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_28615" class="commentText">But what makes Atkinson an exceptional writer – and this is her most ambitious and most gripping work to date – is that she does so with an emotional delicacy and understanding that transcend experiment or playfulness. Life After Life gives us a heroine whose fictional underpinning is permanently exposed, whose artificial status is never in doubt; and yet one who feels painfully, horribly real to us. How do you square that circle? You'd have to ask Kate Atkinson, but I doubt she would give you a straight answer.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/vancouverdeb">vancouverdeb</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'28615', 'workid':'12877924'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/06/life-after-life-kate-atkinson-review" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The Guardian</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="28613" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_5119e70b" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_28613" class="commentText">In a lesser writer’s hands, a novel that revisits its main character’s birth 12 times would likely be tiresome, but each revision is fresh, often funny, and filled with new life in more ways than one. Atkinson tackles a mystical theme in Life After Life, but she is at heart a realist. Though there’s some mystery at play in Ursula’s life, she experiences her triumphs and regrets like the rest of us (perhaps with a slight bit more Britishness): hoping for the best but preparing for the worst, while having a good laugh at it all when you can. What more can life teach us, really, even when you only get one?</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/vancouverdeb">vancouverdeb</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'28613', 'workid':'12877924'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/tag/book-reviews/" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">McLeans Magazine</span></a></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div></div><div class="sa_tools"><a href="#" onclick="$('u_53644954').toggle();$('u_53644954_sa').toggle();$('u_53644954_h').toggle();return false;"><span id="u_53644954_sa">show all</span><span style="display:none;" id="u_53644954_h">hide extra</span></a></div></div> </div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_56" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><a name="otherauthors"></a><span 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data-workid="18229502" href="/work/18229502">Life After Life / Started Early, Took My Dog / Case Histories / One Good Turn / When Will There Be Good News? / Emotionally Weird / Behind the Scenes at the Museum / Not the End of the World / Human Croquet</a> by <a data-authorid="atkinsonkate" href="/author/atkinsonkate">Kate Atkinson</a></span></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_59" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'newaward', 'u_3a7436ea', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Awards and Honors</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_3a7436ea" style="display:block;"><div id="newawardforwork_container"><h2>Awards</h2><div id="u_a7cc45c5" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1403/Andrew-Carnegie-Medals-for-Excellence-in-Fiction-and-Nonfiction" class="" >Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction</a> (<a href="/award/1403.3/Andrew-Carnegie-Medals-for-Excellence-in-Fiction-and-Nonfiction-Longlist">Longlist</a> – <a href="/award/1403.0.5/Andrew-Carnegie-Medals-for-Excellence-in-Fiction-and-Nonfiction-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/1403.0.0.2014/Andrew-Carnegie-Medals-for-Excellence-in-Fiction-and-Nonfiction-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/993/British-Book-Awards" class="" >British Book Awards</a> (<a href="/award/993.1/British-Book-Awards-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/993.0.4704/British-Book-Awards-UK-Author">UK Author</a> – <a href="/award/993.0.0.2013/British-Book-Awards-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/993/British-Book-Awards" class="" >British Book Awards</a> (<a href="/award/993.4/British-Book-Awards-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/993.0.2211/British-Book-Awards-Audiobook">Audiobook</a> – <a href="/award/993.0.0.2013/British-Book-Awards-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1432/CBC-Bookie-Awards" class="" >CBC Bookie Awards</a> (<a href="/award/1432.2/CBC-Bookie-Awards-Nominee">Nominee</a> – <a href="/award/1432.0.4198/CBC-Bookie-Awards-International-Fiction">International Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/1432.0.0.2014/CBC-Bookie-Awards-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1068/Costa-Book-Awards" class="" >Costa Book Awards</a> (<a href="/award/1068.1/Costa-Book-Awards-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/1068.0.2156/Costa-Book-Awards-Novel">Novel</a> – <a href="/award/1068.0.0.2013/Costa-Book-Awards-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/678/The-Economist-Best-Books" class="" >The Economist Best Books</a> (<a href="/award/678.0.0.366292/The-Economist-Best-Books-2013-45">2013.45</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1521/Europese-Literatuurprijs" class="" >Europese Literatuurprijs</a> (<a href="/award/1521.3/Europese-Literatuurprijs-Longlist">Longlist</a> – <a href="/award/1521.0.0.2014/Europese-Literatuurprijs-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/230/Goodreads-Choice-Awards" class="" >Goodreads Choice Awards</a> (<a href="/award/230.1/Goodreads-Choice-Awards-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/230.0.2699/Goodreads-Choice-Awards-Historical-Fiction">Historical Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/230.0.0.2013/Goodreads-Choice-Awards-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/725/Independent-Booksellers-Book-Prize" class="" >Independent Booksellers' Book Prize</a> (<a href="/award/725.1/Independent-Booksellers-Book-Prize-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/725.0.3308/Independent-Booksellers-Book-Prize-Adult">Adult</a> – <a href="/award/725.0.0.2014/Independent-Booksellers-Book-Prize-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/257/Indies-Choice-Book-Award" class="" >Indies Choice Book Award</a> (<a href="/award/257.1/Indies-Choice-Book-Award-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/257.0.3365/Indies-Choice-Book-Award-Adult-Fiction">Adult Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/257.0.0.2014/Indies-Choice-Book-Award-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/945/International-Dublin-Literary-Award" class="" >International Dublin Literary Award</a> (<a href="/award/945.3/International-Dublin-Literary-Award-Longlist">Longlist</a> – <a href="/award/945.0.0.2015/International-Dublin-Literary-Award-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/692/io9-Best-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy-Books-of-the-Year" class="" >io9 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/692.0.0.2013/io9-Best-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy-Books-of-the-Year-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/663/Maine-Readers-Choice-Award" class="" >Maine Readers' Choice Award</a> (<a href="/award/663.3/Maine-Readers-Choice-Award-Longlist">Longlist</a> – <a href="/award/663.0.0.2014/Maine-Readers-Choice-Award-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/273/The-Morning-News-Tournament-of-Books" class="" >The Morning News Tournament of Books</a> (<a href="/award/273.5/The-Morning-News-Tournament-of-Books-Finalist">Finalist</a> – <a href="/award/273.0.20526/The-Morning-News-Tournament-of-Books-Play-In-Winner-Zombie-Selection">Play-In Winner, Zombie Selection</a> – <a href="/award/273.0.0.2014/The-Morning-News-Tournament-of-Books-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/2481/Not-the-Booker-Prize" class="" >Not the Booker Prize</a> (<a href="/award/2481.1/Not-the-Booker-Prize-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/2481.0.0.2013/Not-the-Booker-Prize-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div id="u_87df15f8" class="rolldown" data-action="slide" data-more="show more" data-less="show less" data-all="show all 21" ><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/2505/Scotlands-National-Book-Awards" class="" >Scotland's National Book Awards</a> (<a href="/award/2505.4/Scotlands-National-Book-Awards-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/2505.0.2169/Scotlands-National-Book-Awards-Book-of-the-Year">Book of the Year</a> – <a href="/award/2505.0.0.2013/Scotlands-National-Book-Awards-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/409/South-Bank-Sky-Arts-Award" class="" >South Bank Sky Arts Award</a> (<a href="/award/409.0.2161/South-Bank-Sky-Arts-Award-Literature">Literature</a> – <a href="/award/409.0.0.2014/South-Bank-Sky-Arts-Award-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/767/T%C3%A4htifantasia-Award" class="" >Tähtifantasia Award</a> (<a href="/award/767.2/T%C3%A4htifantasia-Award-Nominee">Nominee</a> – <a href="/award/767.0.0.2015/T%C3%A4htifantasia-Award-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1049/Walter-Scott-Prize-for-Historical-Fiction" class="" >Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction</a> (<a href="/award/1049.4/Walter-Scott-Prize-for-Historical-Fiction-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/1049.0.0.2014/Walter-Scott-Prize-for-Historical-Fiction-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/957/Waterstones-Book-of-the-Year" class="" >Waterstones Book of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/957.4/Waterstones-Book-of-the-Year-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/957.0.0.2013/Waterstones-Book-of-the-Year-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1353/Womens-Prize-for-Fiction" class="" >Women's Prize for Fiction</a> (<a href="/award/1353.4/Womens-Prize-for-Fiction-Shortlist">Shortlist</a> – <a href="/award/1353.0.0.2013/Womens-Prize-for-Fiction-2013">2013</a>)</div></div></div></div><h2>Distinctions</h2><div id="u_ca0a3954" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/701/The-A-V-Club-best-books" class="" >The A.V. Club best books</a> (<a href="/award/701.0.0.2013/The-A-V-Club-best-books-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/316/Amazons-Best-Books-of-the-Month" class="" >Amazon's Best Books of the Month</a> (<a href="/award/316.0.0.156010/Amazons-Best-Books-of-the-Month-April-2013">April 2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/18/Amazon-com-Best-Books" class="" >Amazon.com Best Books</a> (<a href="/award/18.0.1447/Amazon-com-Best-Books-Literature-fiction">Literature & fiction</a> – <a href="/award/18.0.0.2013/Amazon-com-Best-Books-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/232/Booklist-Editors-Choice-Adult-Books" class="" >Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books</a> (<a href="/award/232.0.5/Booklist-Editors-Choice-Adult-Books-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/232.0.0.2013/Booklist-Editors-Choice-Adult-Books-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/229/Christian-Science-Monitor-Best-Book" class="" >Christian Science Monitor Best Book</a> (<a href="/award/229.0.5/Christian-Science-Monitor-Best-Book-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/229.0.0.2013/Christian-Science-Monitor-Best-Book-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/618/Historical-Novel-Society-Editors-Choice" class="" >Historical Novel Society Editors' Choice</a> (<a href="/award/618.0.5063/Historical-Novel-Society-Editors-Choice-Literary-Fantasy">Literary Fantasy</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/175/Kirkus-Reviews-Best-Book-of-the-Year" class="" >Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/175.0.2712/Kirkus-Reviews-Best-Book-of-the-Year-General-Fiction">General Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/175.0.0.2013/Kirkus-Reviews-Best-Book-of-the-Year-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1111/New-York-Times-10-Best-Books" class="" >New York Times 10 Best Books</a> (<a href="/award/1111.0.0.2013/New-York-Times-10-Best-Books-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/95/The-New-York-Times-Best-Books-of-the-Year" class="" >The New York Times Best Books of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/95.0.0.2013/The-New-York-Times-Best-Books-of-the-Year-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15142/NPR-Books-We-Love" class="" >NPR: Books We Love</a> (<a href="/award/15142.0.0.2013/NPR-Books-We-Love-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/297/Publishers-Weeklys-Best-Books-of-the-Year" class="" >Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/297.0.5/Publishers-Weeklys-Best-Books-of-the-Year-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/297.0.0.2013/Publishers-Weeklys-Best-Books-of-the-Year-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/202/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year" class="" >San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/202.0.2980/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year-Fiction%25252FPoetry">Fiction/Poetry</a> – <a href="/award/202.0.0.2013/San-Francisco-Chronicle-Best-Book-of-the-Year-2013">2013</a>)</div></div></div><h2>Notable Lists</h2><div id="u_26dd185f" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/486/100-Best-Books-of-2010-2015-by-The-Oyster-Editors" class="" >100 Best Books of 2010-2015 by The Oyster Editors</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/389/The-100-best-books-of-the-21st-century-by-The-Guardian" class="" >The 100 best books of the 21st century by The Guardian</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/429/100-best-novels-of-the-21st-century-according-to-Afisha-magazine" class="" >100 best novels of the 21st century according to Afisha magazine</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/105/100-Books-to-Read-in-a-Lifetime" class="" >100 Books to Read in a Lifetime</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/789/ALA-Notable-Book" class="" >ALA Notable Book</a> (<a href="/award/789.0.5/ALA-Notable-Book-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/789.0.0.2014/ALA-Notable-Book-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15255/Los-Angeles-Public-Library-Best-of-the-Year" class="" >Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/15255.0.5/Los-Angeles-Public-Library-Best-of-the-Year-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/15255.0.0.2013/Los-Angeles-Public-Library-Best-of-the-Year-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/423/Globe-and-Mail-Top-100-Book" class="" >Globe and Mail Top 100 Book</a> (<a href="/award/423.0.5/Globe-and-Mail-Top-100-Book-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/423.0.0.2013/Globe-and-Mail-Top-100-Book-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15247/King-County-Library-System-Best-Books" class="" >King County Library System Best Books</a> (<a href="/award/15247.0.22339/King-County-Library-System-Best-Books-Fiction-Books">Fiction Books</a> – <a href="/award/15247.0.0.2013/King-County-Library-System-Best-Books-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/13677/Lariat-Adult-Fiction-Reading-List" class="" >Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List</a> (<a href="/award/13677.106/Lariat-Adult-Fiction-Reading-List-Selection">Selection</a> – <a href="/award/13677.0.0.2015/Lariat-Adult-Fiction-Reading-List-2015">2015</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/43/Notable-Books-List" class="" >Notable Books List</a> (<a href="/award/43.0.5/Notable-Books-List-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/43.0.0.2014/Notable-Books-List-2014">2014</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15057/Staying-in-Here-are-five-of-the-best-novels-set-in-Buckinghamshire" class="" >Staying in? Here are five of the best novels set in Buckinghamshire</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/100/Time-Magazines-Best-Books-of-the-Year" class="" >Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year</a> (<a href="/award/100.0.5/Time-Magazines-Best-Books-of-the-Year-Fiction">Fiction</a> – <a href="/award/100.0.0.2013/Time-Magazines-Best-Books-of-the-Year-2013">2013</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/769/Time-Magazines-Best-Fiction-Books-of-the-2010s" class="" >Time Magazine's Best Fiction Books of the 2010s</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_60" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer"><a value="view history" value="view history" class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn btn-tiny btn-default" type="button" role="button" href="/commonknowledge/changelog.php?item=12877924&type=1" ><span class="btntxt">view history</span></a></div><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" 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src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Pamela+Todd">Pamela Todd</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Maurice+Todd">Maurice Todd</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_3456280b">(<a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_3456280b')">show all 41 items</a>)</div><div id="u_3456280b" style="display: none;"><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Teddy+Todd">Teddy Todd</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Jimmy+Todd">Jimmy Todd</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mrs+Glover">Mrs Glover</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/George+Glover">George Glover</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Bridget">Bridget</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Millie+Shawcross">Millie Shawcross</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Nancy+Shawcross">Nancy Shawcross</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Izzie">Izzie</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Benjamin+Cole">Benjamin Cole</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Ben">Ben</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Jock">Jock</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=West+Highland+Terrier">West Highland Terrier</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Crighton">Crighton</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Howie">Howie</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Howard+S+Lansdowne+III">Howard S Lansdowne III</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Derek+Oliphant">Derek Oliphant</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Crighton">Crighton</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mrs+Appleyard">Mrs Appleyard</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Eryka">Eryka</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Emil+Appleyard">Emil Appleyard</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/The+Nesbit+Sisters%2C+Lavinia+%2526+Ruth">The Nesbit Sisters, Lavinia & Ruth</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/The+Miller+Family">The Miller Family</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mr+Bentley">Mr Bentley</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Miss+Hartnell">Miss Hartnell</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Ralph">Ralph</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/The+Brenner+Family">The Brenner Family</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Herr+%26+Frau+Brenner+Karla+Hilldegard+Hannelore+%26+Helmut">Herr & Frau Brenner, Karla, Hilldegard, Hannelore & Helmut</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Jurgen+Fuchs">Jurgen Fuchs</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Eva+Braun">Eva Braun</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Frieda">Frieda</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Miss+Woolf">Miss Woolf</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Dorcas">Dorcas</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mr.+Durkin">Mr. Durkin</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mr.+Simms">Mr. Simms</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mr.+Palmer">Mr. Palmer</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mr.+Armitage">Mr. Armitage</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Mr.+Bullock">Mr. Bullock</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=John">John</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Herr+Zimmerman">Herr Zimmerman</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=Gabi">Gabi</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Fred+Smith">Fred Smith</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Bea+Shawcross">Bea Shawcross</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Gertie+Shawcross">Gertie Shawcross</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Winnie+Shawcross">Winnie Shawcross</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </div></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_placesmentioned"></a>Important places</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_dd8e934f' itemType='1' itemNum='12877924' fieldType='2' name='u_dd8e934f' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'placesmentioned' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '"Boston, Massachusetts, USA", "London, England", "The Plaza Hotel, New York, New York, USA", "Hogwarts", "Alpha Centauri", "Hell"' ><div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/London%2C+England%2C+UK">London, England, UK</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Berlin%2C+Germany">Berlin, Germany</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_events"></a>Important events</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_a76871bf' itemType='1' itemNum='12877924' fieldType='34' name='u_a76871bf' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'events' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Great Fire of London (1666), Battle of the Bulge (1944|1945), Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963-11-22), Battle of Hoth' ><div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/events/World+War+II">World War II</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=1939">1939</a> | <a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=1945">1945</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/events/The+Blitz">The Blitz</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=1940">1940</a> | <a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=1941">1941</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/events/World+War+I">World War I</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=1914">1914</a> | <a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=1918">1918</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/events/Influenza+pandemic">Influenza pandemic</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=1918">1918</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_movies"></a>Related movies</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_c5fe9e91' itemType='1' itemNum='12877924' fieldType='37' name='u_c5fe9e91' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'movies' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Blade Runner (1982), The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Three Musketeers (1993)' ><div class='fwikiItem divmovies'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" editVal="" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr>     <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_epigraph"></a>Epigraph</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_0ee68683' itemType='1' itemNum='12877924' fieldType='28' name='u_0ee68683' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'epigraph' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The work's epigraph, "a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component." ' ><div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more"... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: "You are a god and never have I heard anything so divine." <br><br>Nietzsche, <i>The Gay Science</i></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Everything changes and nothing remains still.<br><br>Plato, <i>Cratylus</i></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_dedication"></a>Dedication</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_437ddddf' itemType='1' itemNum='12877924' fieldType='30' name='u_437ddddf' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'dedication' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Author's dedication' ><div class='fwikiItem divdedication'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >For Elissa</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_firstwords"></a>First words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_48a8ff32' itemType='1' itemNum='12877924' fieldType='25' name='u_48a8ff32' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'firstwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The first sentence of the work.' ><div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >A fug of tobacco smoke and damp clammy air hit her as she entered the café.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_7b7e8dae' itemType='1' itemNum='12877924' fieldType='27' name='u_7b7e8dae' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >"It's as if," he said to Ursula, "you walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living."</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >"All those names," Teddy said, gazing at the Cenotaph. "All those lives. And now again. I think there is something wrong with the human race. It undermines everything one would like to believe in, don't you think?"<br><br>"No point in thinking," she said briskly, "you just have to get on with life." (She really was turning into Miss Woolf.) "We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it <i>right</i>, but we must <i>try</i>." (The transformation was complete.)<br><br>"What if we had a chance to do it again and again," Teddy said, "until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?"</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_lastwords"></a>Last words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_b569fb78' itemType='1' itemNum='12877924' fieldType='26' name='u_b569fb78' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'lastwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The last sentence of the work. Content will be hidden unless clicked.' ><div class='fwikiItem divlastwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" id="u_dd6ed4c7" style="display: none; min-height:12px;" >"You may as well have another tot of rum.  You won't be going anywhere in a hurry tonight."</div><a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_dd6ed4c7')" id="link_u_dd6ed4c7">(Click to show. 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On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original -- this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best. 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