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386:(though the novel was ultimately not longlisted). He said the high-concept premise of "Ursula to avoid the accident that previously killed her blends uneasily with what is otherwise a deft and convincing portrayal of an English family's evolution across two world wars all the other characters seem complexly armed with free will." He found the resolution related to the prologue as "rushed and anti-climactic". But Sacks also said that "she characters to life with enviable ease", referring to the erosion of Sylvie and Hugh's marriage as "poignantly charted". Also, like Maslin, he lauded the novella-length Blitz chapter as "gorgeous and nerve-racking". 198:, and finally becoming trapped in a highly oppressive marriage, and being killed by her abusive husband when trying to escape. In later lives she averts all this by being pre-emptively aggressive to the would-be rapist. In between, she also uses her half-memory of earlier lives to avert the young neighbour Nancy being raped and murdered by a child molester. The saved Nancy would play an important role in Ursula's later life(s), forming a deep love relationship with Ursula's brother Teddy, and would become a main character in the sequel, 455:"seamlessly executes an idiosyncratic premise and contains a seemingly endless capacity to surprise", but that it "will stand the test of time for its in-between moments — its portraits of wartime, its glimpses into small domestic worlds, its understanding of one woman’s life as filled with infinite possibilities." The novel was among the honourable mentions on the 306: 301: 296: 291: 286: 409:
for refractions of the same scene, considering the permutations of what is said and done. It can provide an enjoyable and interactive experience." He criticised the portions outside Britain, however, and said overall that the book has "an abundance of human warmth, but it just isn't convincing. There is much to enjoy – but not quite enough to admire."
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expressed mixed feelings. He commended the depiction of Ursula and her family, and Atkinson's "fine storytelling and sharp eye for domestic detail". He argued, "There is real playfulness in these revisited moments and repetition never breeds dullness. Instead, we try to spot the differences and look
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as Atkinson's "very best" book and "full of mind games, but they are purposeful rather than emptily playful. this one connects its loose ends with facile but welcome clarity." She described it as having an "engaging cast of characters" and called the depiction of the British experience of World War
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What is left unclear - since each of the time sequences end with "darkness" and Ursula's death and does not show what followed - is whether in fact all these lives actually occurred in an objective world, or were only subjectively experienced by her. Specifically it is not clear whether or not her
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a positive review, saying that domestic details of daily life are conveyed beautifully, and that traumatic shifts in British society are also captured well "precisely because she cuts directly from one war to the next, only later going back to fill in, partially, what happened in between." Clark
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suggested that the book proves that "a fully-realised world" is more important to the success of a fiction work than the progression of its story, and dubbed it a "major, serious yet playfully experimental novel". She argued that by not choosing one path for Ursula, Atkinson "opened her novel
223:, including a direct hit on a bomb shelter in Argyll Road in November 1940 - with herself being among the victims in some lives and among the rescuers in others. There is also a life in which she marries a German in 1934, is unable to return to England and experiences the war in 257:
where the Nazis did not take power in Germany, or possibly took power under a different leader with a different course of the Second World War. Although in her 1967 incarnation Ursula speculates with her nephew on this "might have been", the book avoids giving a clear answer.
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and stillborn. In later iterations of her life she dies as a child - drowning in the sea, or when saved from that, by falling to her death from the roof when trying to retrieve a fallen doll. Then there are several sequences when she falls victim to the
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wrote that Atkinson "nimbly succeeds in keeping the novel from becoming confusing" and argued that the work "makes the reader acutely conscious of an author’s power: how much the novelist can do."
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argued that the novel " the family and it to show how fiction works and what it might mean to us with an emotional delicacy and understanding that transcend experiment or playfulness.
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found the central character to be sympathetic, and argued that the book's central message was that World War II was preventable and should not have been allowed to happen.
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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."
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epidemic of 1918 – which repeats itself again and again, though she already has a foreknowledge of it, and only her fourth attempt to avert catching the flu succeeds.
676: 1610: 620: 1620: 731: 1416: 569: 1605: 274:, the book received, based on American press, "rave" reviews based on twelve critic reviews with eight being "rave" and four being "positive". 1595: 966: 1635: 494: 1059: 1246: 104: 838: 1600: 560:, Harry Michell, Laurie Kynaston, Joshua Hill, and Maria Laird completing the cast. The series began broadcast on 19 April 2022. 1505: 1441: 200: 150: 129: 1567: 1481: 992: 351: 1346: 1615: 864: 684: 1630: 1590: 898: 472: 1372: 1409: 527: 436:. Atkinson’s sage weaves a heartbreaking, frightening and beautiful journey that’s written with tenacity and grace." 167: 812: 1489: 485: 241:
in late 1930. Memory of her earlier lives also provides the means of doing that: the knowledge that by befriending
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as the 20th best book since 2000. It was written that the "dizzying fictional construction is grounded by such
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commissioned a four-part adaptation of Atkinson's work in December 2020. In April 2021, it was announced that
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for its central character, Ursula Todd, who is born on 11 February 1910 to an upper-middle-class family near
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gave it an aggregated critic score of 77 percent based on British and American press reviews. On
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July/August 2013 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a
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that her heroine’s struggles always feel painfully, joyously real." The novel was 20th in
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The novel has an unusual structure, repeatedly looping back in time to describe
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2013 UK: Penguin Books. USA: (Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Company)
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Ursula eventually comes to realize, through a particularly strong sense of
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from her previous lives, and decides to try to prevent the war by killing
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II "gutsy and deeply disturbing, just as the author intends it to be."
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Then there is an unhappy life where she is traumatised by being
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Annual Award for Literature (2014). It was ranked 51st in the
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The book received generally positive reviews from critics. On
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It was listed as one of the decade's top 10 fiction works by
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list of the 100 best books of the 21st century in 2024.
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Still later iterations of Ursula's life take her into
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Index


Kate Atkinson
Historical fiction
ISBN
9780316176484
OCLC
806015209
A God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson
A God in Ruins
alternative possible lives
Chalfont St Peter
Buckinghamshire
umbilical cord
Spanish flu
raped
illegal abortion
A God in Ruins
World War II
London
War Office
the Blitz
Berlin
deja vu
Adolf Hitler
Eva Braun
Munich
altered timeline
Book Marks
Bookmarks

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