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I really enjoyed the book, Like After Life, by Kate Atkinson. We didn’t know a mini-series had been made out of it but found it by randomly searching on Amazon Prime.
Essentially, the story is about a woman, Ursula, who experiences, you guessed it, life after life. At first she dies in childbirth, umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. Then each life progresses, each time ending in death.
While she doesn’t clearly remember each life, she has dreams about them, and at times takes steps to prevent the deaths, such as when the maid goes to the WWI victory celebration and comes back infected by the Spanish Flu that kills Ursula. In another life it kills not just her, but her siblings.
It can be a little confusing and I see that the book reviews indicate that. The concept of life after life is hard to grasp but an intriguing one to contemplate. If you can live your life over, what would you do different? Would it make a difference?
One key to both book and series is it shows how random life is. How the smallest thing, like a slip on the sidewalk can completely alter your life.
Even with four episodes, the miniseries leaves a lot of the book out.
The show, and the book, provide no clear answers. But it does make you ask questions. Ones that we all need to answer for ourselves. After all, what is the meaning of our life?
Recommended.
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