What if you had the chance to live your life again & again until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910 a baby is born & dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910 the same baby is born & lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? & third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? & would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again & again. With wit & compassion Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments & shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound & inventive in a novel that celebrates the best & worst of ourselves.