Laura Messersmith

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Recommended by Laura Messersmith

in response to Hillary Kelly

What absolute doorstopper of a novel do you read all summer long? Looking for something so engrossing I'll start to miss vital work meetings but not really care.

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This book is astonishingly good - intriguing, beautifully written, poignant. Once it captured me I couldn’t put it down.

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Life After Life

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Hailey

Hailey

“A British family saga à la Cazalets, but with a rich conceptual premise. Reading Atkinson is being in such good hands.”

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Andrea Shah

Andrea Shah

“sooner or later, I always circle back to this book. for the revealing parenthetical asides. for the section that's the best thing I've ever read about the Blitz. for the relationship between sisters. for alternate histories.”

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