If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.
Because let’s face it: failing is no great shakes. In life, we all make mistakes. If we’re lucky, we learn from them as well. Perhaps they even help to make us who we are.
But say the failure state of whatever endeavour was more meaningful than a slight setback. What if you were to die trying?
That’s what happens to poor Ursula Todd at the end of almost every section of Kate Atkinson’s astonishing new novel Life After Life: she expires. But there’s something even weirder going on here, because after the end... the beginning again—and again and again—of life after life.
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