LIFE AFTER LIFE NOVEL SERIES

BBC Studios will distribute internationally. With the incredible team of Bash, John and House Productions behind it we have no doubt that this is going to be a really remarkable adaptation.”įilming on “Life After Life” will take place in spring 2021. Wenger said: “We are honored to be able to bring Kate Atkinson’s adored ‘Life After Life’ to life on the BBC.

LIFE AFTER LIFE NOVEL SERIES

The series was commissioned by Charlotte Moore, BBC chief content officer, and Piers Wenger, director of BBC Drama. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Paperback) Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. “And in John Crowley, we know we have a wonderful and ambitious director who brings huge heart, gripping storytelling and an extraordinary visual flair to this incredible story,” Ross and Howell added. All human life is here, told through the experiences of Ursula who keeps on dying and being reborn.” We have brought together an immensely talented team who love the novel as we do too: Bash Doran’s scripts brilliantly capture the heart and soul of the novel, the warmth and scale of its world and the extraordinary characters who inhabit it.

Ross and Howell said: “We feel hugely privileged that Kate Atkinson has entrusted the adaptation of her bestselling, award winning novel ‘Life After Life’ to House. Ross and Howell are executive producers for House Productions and Lucy Richer for the BBC. House produced the Emmy and BAFTA-nominated “Brexit: The Uncivil War,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch. House Productions is the production company set up by Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell. A dizzying and dazzling tour de force.The novel was published in 2013 and won the Costa Book Award. Life After Life gives us a heroine whose fictional underpinning is permanently exposed, whose artificial status is never in doubt and yet one who feels painfully, horribly real to us.' - Alex Clark Guardian 'Merging family saga with a fluid sense of time and an extraordinarily vivid sense of history at its most human level. It has that kind of thrill to it, of an already much-loved novelist taking a leap, and breaking through to the next level.This is a rare book that you want, Ursula-like, to start again the minute you have finished.' - Helen Rumbelow The Times 'What makes Atkinson an exceptional writer - and this is her most ambitious and most gripping work to date - is that she does so with an emotional delicacy and understanding that transcend experiment or playfulness. Life After Life should have the popular success of the former and deserves to win prizes, too. Martin Amis's Times Arrow, his rewinding of the Holocaust that was shortlisted for the Booker. Simply put: it's ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS I'VE READ THIS CENTURY.' - Gillian Flynn,no1 New York Times author of Gone Girl, and Sharp Objects 'Truly brilliant.Think of Audrey Niffenegger's The TimeTraveler's Wife or David Nicholl's One Day. And if you want to give a dazzling present, buy it for your friends.' Hilary Mantel 'There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describe Life After Life: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. If you wish to be moved and astonished, read it. Ingenious in construction, indefatigably entertaining, it grips the reader's imagination on the first page and never lets go. 'Kate Atkinson's new novel is a box of delights. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.

A dizzying and dazzling tour de force' Daily Mail WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD: the acclaimed number one bestselling novel.

'Merging family saga with a fluid sense of time and an extraordinarily vivid sense of history at its most human level.

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