![]() As she grows up, the book keeps returning to alternate versions of that night and some dozen other moments in her ordinary, extraordinary life, a prism refracting countless possibilities. The buzzing of a thousand bees in the tiny curled pearl of an ear.” Four pages later, Ursula is born again and lives - at least for a while. ![]() Kate Atkinson’s Life is by far the more audacious, the kind of sweeping virtuoso epic that actually earns overheated book-jacket phrases like ”tour de force!” Her protagonist, Ursula Todd, dies on the seventh page, before she even takes her first breath on a snowy winter night in England in 1910: ”Little lungs, like dragonfly wings failing to inflate in the foreign atmosphere.
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