{"id":5290,"date":"2014-07-23T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T20:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2014-08-11T08:57:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T07:57:37","slug":"life-after-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5290","title":{"rendered":"Life After Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Life-After-Kate-Atkinson\/dp\/0385618670\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Life-after-life.jpg\" alt=\"Life after life\" width=\"245\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book is beautifully written.  I can&#8217;t believe that this was written by the same person who wrote Started Early, Took My Dog, which I read recently.  KA has a gift for writing from women&#8217;s perspectives, no matter what time period they are in.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the quality of the writing, what kept me reading was wondering whether Ursula would fare any better in the next perumtation.  I was utterly gripped.  I also loved how the Snow period is revisited and bulked out gradually through the book e.g. we know that Sylvie is given a snowdrop in a vase on her breakfast tray, then later we see how it came to be there.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many characters and permutations that I feel compelled to make some kind of chart to make sense of it all but it looks like someone has <a href=\"http:\/\/inventingthemedium.com\/2013\/05\/18\/replay-story-structure-life-after-life-2\/\">analysed it already<\/a> with an accompanying flow chart:<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Life-After-Life-permutations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Life-After-Life-permutations.jpg\" alt=\"Life After Life permutations\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5311\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think the flow chart is a bit too simplistic though so I&#8217;ll be going through the book again, making my own notes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a wonderful book with a well-told story (or should I say stories?).  The characters feel very real and the are tragedies enormous and poetic.  Ultimately I found this to be quite a sad book but I loved it.  I would go so far as to say that it&#8217;s the best book I&#8217;ve read all year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is beautifully written. I can&#8217;t believe that this was written by the same person who wrote Started Early, Took My Dog, which I read recently. KA has a gift for writing from women&#8217;s perspectives, no matter what time period they are in. Aside from the quality of the writing, what kept me reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5343,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}