![]() "Life After Life" is a time-travel novel of sorts, but with a voice and sensibility purely its own.ĭuring a heavy snowfall in 1910, her banker father away from the house and her mother lacking professional medical assistance, Ursula Todd is born and dies without drawing a breath. ![]() ![]() Now Atkinson moves away from the mystery novel and tackles a trope familiar to any reader interested in science fiction or fantasy. More literary-minded than most whodunits, the plots of the Brodie books dance at the intersection of logic and coincidence, often drawing their power less from what is revealed than from what remains tantalizingly obscured. Over the course of four novels chronicling the adventures of erstwhile detective Jackson Brodie, Kate Atkinson, author of "Case Histories" and "When Will There Be Good News?" put her unique stamp on the modern British crime novel. (Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown 529 pages $27.99)
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