![]() ![]() ![]() Ursula, the sturdy heroine of “Life After Life,” is reborn over and over, tested again and again on the path to her ultimate fate. ![]() In “Transcription” she returns to the years of England’s greatest travail, World War II, an era she used to splendid effect in her 2013 masterpiece “Life After Life” and its follow-up, “A God in Ruins.”Ītkinson is fascinated with the way the Fates toy with humans, teasing and tormenting until the thread of existence is snipped. Juliet is the latest creation of Britain’s Kate Atkinson, an author almost unique in her ability to write like a wizard (she’s a three-time winner of the Costa Prize) and sell stacks and stacks of books (three million and counting). ![]() “In fact, she suspected that it helped in some way.” Summoned to an interview, she throws out one lie after another to her interrogator but gets the job anyway: “It didn’t seem to matter,” she thought. Adrift in London in the opening days of World War II, she is recommended to MI5 by the headmistress of the top-flight school she attended. Her mariner father is lost at sea her mother, her support and advocate, has just died, extinguishing Juliet’s hopes of applying to Oxbridge. ![]()
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