Life After Life
British novelist, born 1951. Won the Costa Novel Award in 2013 and 2015.
Life After Life is a 2013 novel by Kate Atkinson. It won the Costa Novel Award in 2013.
In historical fiction, family saga
On 7 of the 18 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Kate Atkinson
- First published
- 2013
- Length
- 624 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2013
- Costa Novel Award winner, 2013
- Walter Scott Prize shortlist, 2014
- Genre
- Historical fiction, War and conflict, Family saga
Is Life After Life worth reading?
7 of the 18 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Costa Novel Award and The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2013) | Winner | See the list |
| Goodreads Choice Awards: Fiction and Historical Fiction winners (Goodreads, 2009-) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 20 | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The New York Times, 2024) | No. 51 | See the list |
| Walter Scott Prize (winners and shortlists) (Abbotsford Trust, 2014) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Waterstones Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (Waterstones, 2012-) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2013) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Life After Life
The edition we link to is the Black Swan paperback (2014), 624 pages.
- Publisher
- Black Swan (paperback, 2014)
- Pages
- 624
- ISBN
- 9780552776639
How critics, prizes and readers rate Life After Life
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 47% of the points available on prize lists, against 31% on critics' lists and 25% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Life After Life
If you liked Life After Life, try Wolf Hall, Midnight's Children or Beloved.
