When Will There Be Good News? was voted Richard & Judy Book Best Read of the Year. Its heroine, Ursula Todd, keeps dying, then. She is the author of a collection of short stories, Not the End of the World, and of the critically acclaimed novels Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Case Histories, and One Good Turn.Ĭase Histories introduced her readers to Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award and the Prix Westminster. But the one-time-only nature of death is anything but self-evident in Kate Atkinson’s new novel, Life After Life. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and she has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since. After Case Histories and One Good Turn, it was her third novel to fea Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. The same can be said admiringly of Kate Atkinson, whose latest novel, Life After Life. When Will There Be Good News? was voted Richard & Judy Book Best Read of the Year. In the midst of a secret love affair, Ursula Todd discovers that she is an excellent liar. Case Histories introduced her readers to Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award and the Prix Westminster.
She is the author of a collection of short stories, Not the End of the World, and of the critically acclaimed novels Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Case Histories, and One Good Turn. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and she has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since. In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships with members of her family, and details of life during World Wars I and II.This would be a captivating book even without the redoing-life element. Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh.