On this day in television history - Life After Life (2022 TV mini-series & novels):

Life After Life

directed by John Crowley,

written by Bathsheba/Bash Doran, Jessi Drewett,

based on the novel by Kate Atkinson,

released on the internet on April 19, 2022.

Music by Volker Bertelmann.

Cast: Isla Johnston, Thomasin McKenzie, Eliza Riley, Lesley Manville, Sian Clifford, Sean Delaney, Maria Laird, James McArdle, Nancy Rumball, Nelly Rumball, Harry Michell, Jessica Hynes, Joshua Hill, Patsy Ferran, Jack Forsyth-Noble, Sadie Byron, Oscar Eskinazi, John Hodgkinson, Ron Cook, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laurie Kynaston, James George Williams, Gus Turner, Anders Hayward, Matthew Pidgeon, Alfie Harrison, Joe Black, Matilda Stafford, Kelsey Balla, Pamela Stafford, Zachary Nachbar-Seckel, Ralph Davis, Harry Cadby, River Caddle, Zara Gormley, Mhairi Gayer, Louis Hofmann, Matthew Cottle, James Chadburn, Andy Membury, Kai Membury, Helena Albright, Aron von Andrian, Archie O'Callaghan, Arthur McGirr, Zee Asha, Matthew Sim, Syreeta Kumar, Ian Saynor, Odimegwu Okoye, Hope Delaney, Dominic Hodson, Paul Lancaster, Anna Lavrenteva, Callum Coates, Aiden Lewis-Quilter, Liam Lewis-Quilter, Freddy Sawyer, Lacey Dempsey-Ball, Sarah Daniela Seggari, Muki Zubis, Leo Rait, Xavier Edmead, Suzanne Bertish, Tachia Newall, Wyatt Wilfort, Finley Wilfort, Ray MacAllan, Declan Miele-Howell, Saura Lightfoot-Leon, Emma Beattie, Daniel Boys, Zac Pile, Rose Riley, Kieran Brunt, Cameron Ralph, Audrey Hart, Clara Graham, Matilda Humphrey, Gilian Cally, Jude Humphrey, Evie Templeton, Edward Green, Martin Oelbermann, Lily Claudia Eustace, Stuart Cooke, Hannah Colby, Andreas Bedorf.

Recommended reading:

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson.

Published by Back Bay Books.
Published 2013.

ISBN-10: 0316176494
ISBN-13: 978-0316176491

Description:
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.

Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can – will she?

Named a New York Times Best Book of the Century, Life After Life is darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original: this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.

A God in Ruins

by Kate Atkinson.

Published by Back Bay Books.
Published 2015.

ISBN-10: 0316176508
ISBN-13: 978-0316176507

Description:

His stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn), follows Ursula's brother Teddy as he navigates an unknown future after a perilous war.

"He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next day. Part of him never adjusted to having a future."

Kate Atkinson's dazzling Life After Life explored the possibility of infinite chances and the power of choices, following Ursula Todd as she lived through the turbulent events of the last century over and over again. A God in Ruins tells the dramatic story of the 20th Century through Ursula's beloved younger brother Teddy – would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather – as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world.

After all that Teddy endures in battle, his greatest challenge is living in a future he never expected to have. An ingenious and moving exploration of one ordinary man's path through extraordinary times, A God in Ruins proves once again that Kate Atkinson is one of the finest novelists of our age.