Life After Life

  ‘You should see the snow,’ the landlord said, leaning across the great polished depth of the brass bar counter. ‘We could all be stuck here for days.’

  ‘Days?’

  ‘You may as well have another tot of rum. You won’t be going anywhere in a hurry tonight.’

  Acknowledgements

  I would like to thank the following:

  Andrew Janes (the National Archives in Kew)

  Dr Juliet Gardiner

  Lt Col M Keech BEM R Signals

  Dr Pertti Ahonen (Department of History, Edinburgh University)

  Frederike Arnold

  Annette Weber

  And also my agent, Peter Straus, and Larry Finlay, Marianne Velmans, Alison Barrow and everyone at Transworld Publishers, as well as Camilla Ferrier and everyone at the Marsh Agency.

  To know more about the writing of this book (including a bibliography), please visit my website, www.kateatkinson.co.uk.

  About the Author

  Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has been a critically acclaimed international author ever since. Her four most recent bestsellers featured the former private detective Jackson Brodie: Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog. She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

  Also by Kate Atkinson

  Behind the Scenes at the Museum

  Human Croquet

  Emotionally Weird

  Not the End of the World

  Case Histories

  One Good Turn

  When Will There Be Good News?

  Started Early, Took My Dog

  For more information on Kate Atkinson and her books, see her website at www.kateatkinson.co.uk

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  LIFE AFTER LIFE

  A DOUBLEDAY BOOK: 9780385618670

  Version 1.0 Epub ISBN 9781409043799

  First published in Great Britain

  in 2013 by Doubleday

  an imprint of Transworld Publishers

  Copyright © Kate Costello Ltd, 2013

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  This book is a work of fiction and, except in the case of historical fact, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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