A God in Ruins : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from Iira

Not as good as Life After Life, but very much worth reading. The two books are very different, perhaps that's why they make such a perfect pair. Unlikeable characters are likeable and vice versa.

from Cariola

Atkinson's Life after Life was one of my top five novels a few years back. It's series of "What ifs" in the life of Ursula Todd, born in the 1910s: what if Ursula had been stillborn or lived into old age, married or never married, stayed in England or spent years in pre-war Germany, etc. To me, i...

from Mercef

Another terrific story from Kate Atkinson. Billed as a companion book, not a sequel, to her magnificent novel, Life after life. This novel depicts the life of Teddy, an English bomber in WW2, and his family. Atkinson details her characters so vividly that it is easy to become engrossed in their l...

from lauralkeet

I love Kate Atkinson's novels, and have gobbled up everything from her early character-driven mysteries to the critically acclaimed Life After Life, which told the story of Ursula Todd, who somehow lived the events of the 20th century over and over again. Atkinson's latest work, A God In Ruins, i...

from RidgewayGirl

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is. Literature had fueled her childhood fantasies and convinced her that one day she would be the heroine o her own narrative. Throughout her teens she inhabited the nineteenth century, roaming the moors with...