'Life After Life' is Kerri's book pick

Kerri's book Pick of the Week is Kate Atkinson's "Life After Life," the story of Ursula Todd, a woman who is born again and again. The novel explores what ties are the strongest in our lives and what we would do to change our histories.

From The Guardian review:

Kate Atkinson's new novel is a marvel, a great big confidence trick - but one that invites the reader to take part in the deception. In fact, it is impossible to ignore it. Every time you attempt to lose yourself in the story of Ursula Todd, a child born in affluent and comparatively happy circumstances on 11 February 1910, it simply stops. If this sounds like the quick route to a short book, don't worry: the narrative starts again - and again and again - but each time it takes a different course, its details sometimes radically, sometimes marginally altered, its outcome utterly unpredictable. Atkinson's general rule is that things seem to get better with repetition, but this, her self-undermining novel seems to warn us, is a comfort that is by no means guaranteed, either.

Read an excerpt here.