Who recommends it
- James KaufmanInterview
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – loved her mysteries and everyone in my family has read and loved it. I’m saving it for when my brain has a little more room in it (although in answering these questions I am realizing how much I haven’t read!).
- Dawn TindleInterview
Most recently, I’ve recommended Life After Life by Kate Atkinson to everyone. It’s a beautiful book that makes you think while entertaining you with some funny, heart-wrenching and fascinating narratives. It’s definitely worth checking out.
- Laura SnyderInterview
That’s a tough one. There’s been a bumper crop of excellent historical fiction lately, and I’ve been binging on them. I adored Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and Arcadia by Iain Pears. I particularly enjoyed The Lost Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith, partly because the topic is so related to my own recent…
- Tom PriceInterview
Absolutely anything by Kate Atkinson. Life After Life and A God In Ruins are just utterly mesmerising reads. I can’t think of anyone writing today whose books I look forward to more – she’s dark though, really dark. There’s a lot of brutal deaths and emotionally gut-wrenching moments written with a stunning lightness…
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