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Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life Being Adapted for the BBC
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Life After Life, Ursula Todd dies the night she’s born. But then she doesn’t. Kate Atkinson’s bestselling novel follows Ursula as she lives and dies repeatedly a cinematic concept that will be brought to life on screen by the BBC in a four-part series.
Deadline reports the project already has a writer and director on board: John Crowley (
The Goldfinch) is set to direct, and Bathsheba Doran (
Outlaw King,
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Life After Life is an elaboration of the serenity prayer, essentially, in which Ursula finds the courage to change the things she can, and the grace to accept those things she can’t. As torturous a process as this is for her, it’s utterly wonderful for us. Let’s waste no time wondering what if what if, for instance, I could reach into the fiction and fix it, after a fashion because at the end of the day, I would change nothing about this haunting novel. It’s exemplary in every which way.