Life After Life - BBC begins this evening

I loved the book, my favourite of hers, it did split opinion though. I think a lot of people preferred the sequel "A God in Ruins".

I saw the trailers which look good. It's very much a suspend belief tale, maybe not everyone will go for such a premise, nevertheless I shall watch it in anticipation.

I like Kate Atkinson’s books. I’ve put this down to record.

Terribull I loved A God In Ruins too. I have loved her books since I read Behind The Scenes At The Museum many years ago.

KA is one of my favourite writers, loved every book of hers. I’m also looking forward to this. I loved Jason Isaacs (swoon) as Jackson Brodie, wish they’d made more of them.

Ye Janes that one too Behind The Scenes At The Museum, wonderful!

Thank you for letting the GMer's know about this. i hadn't seen it advertised.

I read the book a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I hope the series lives up to the book, they often don't

I bought the follow up (A God in Ruins) but never got around to reading it. Might spur me on now.

Do you know if it will all be on iPlayer after the first one. I prefer to binge watch rather than wait a week between episodes.

I have just seen on Amazon that KA has a new book coming out in September - Shrines of Gaiety. It is set in 1926 in the clubs of Soho.

Quite glad it isn't a Jackson Brodie one. They were my least favourites.

Just checked iPlayer. It doesn't look like I can binge watch. The BBC seem to be showing them just weekly. There are four episodes showing on the list.

ye janes typo that should be Yes Jane.

Thanks for the heads up on the new book Pink Cosmos. KA is such a great writer, although I must admit I did struggle with one of hers a couple of years ago, "Transcription" found it really tedious.

I also love her books and have read “Life After Life “ many times . Such a wonderful many-layered novel. I also started with Behind The Scenes At The Museum. Hope the dramatisation does not disappoint
I don’t like detective novels so have not read the Jackson Brodie books, but enjoyed watching them on the tv.

This is one of my favourite books so I hope this is done well. I’ll definitely be watching.

TerriBull

--ye janes-- typo that should be Yes Jane.

Thanks for the heads up on the new book Pink Cosmos. KA is such a great writer, although I must admit I did struggle with one of hers a couple of years ago, "Transcription" found it really tedious.

I did too. I found it very hard going.

I also enjoyed Life After Life but preferred the sequel A God in Ruins. I see the BBC have listed Life After Life in their TV schedules as Sci-Fi!

I agree that Transcriptions was disappointing and look forward to a return to form in her next book.

I thought that was very well done and all episodes are now on the iPlayer.

PinkCosmos

Just checked iPlayer. It doesn't look like I can binge watch. The BBC seem to be showing them just weekly. There are four episodes showing on the list.

All episodes on I player.

I loved it.

I'm a bit confused as to how many times she actually died?

Joseanne

I'm a bit confused as to how many times she actually died?

She dies many times with different outcomes, don’t be distracted by the number of times, just enjoy the story.

By coincidence, I read this book for your second time just after Christmas. Excellent and the dramatisation looks promising so far with the delightful Teddy and rather horrid Maurice

Joseanne

I'm a bit confused as to how many times she actually died?

At birth, in the sea, falling from the window and from flu. I think that was it.

I enjoyed it too. Pretty true to the book apart from the omitted opening chapter which I think was a shame.

It fair romped along, maybe too quickly and in doing so misses some of the nuances of the book, for example, Sylvie Todd's attraction to George Glover dispensed with by Hugh's comment about her "liveliness" in the bedroom! A small criticism. 4/5

Hmmm ... it's a good try. But the beauty of Atkinson's books is the slick verbal humour, which is not in the form of dialogue and cannot be replicated on screen.

I’m enjoying it so far and have set series report to make sure I don’t miss the next ones. I have read the book but cannot remember much but bits came back to me as I watched the programme.

I'm hooked already, loved the book will follow on iplayer.

Joseanne

I'm a bit confused as to how many times she actually died?

From memory she dies a lot in the beginning of the book, particularly when as we saw her in the first episode, baby and child. Then if I remember rightly it was a case of if she took a certain path at various junctures of her life, how differently her life would have paned out and the interludes between the deaths get longer, I think?

I read the book quite a while ago, when it was first published, I realised I'd forgotten some of the finer detail, such as what an absolute shit horror Maurice was. I was dubious as to whether I would like the dramatisation, but thought it was very well done.

If this series is a success maybe it will be followed up with the sequel, A God in Ruins which was very much about Teddy particularly his young life as a fighter pilot in WW2.

I gave up on it.