Exploring the many lives of Ursula Todd, born and reborn on a wintry night in 1910, its Groundhog Day conceit struck a tenuous balance between macabre playfulness and crushing fatalism.
"Life After Life" was a war novel in a postmodern puzzle-box. The follow-up, "A God in Ruins," is a stunner. After a decade of impressively intricate Jackson Brodie mysteries, 2013's "Life After Life" represented an ambitious shift in tone, snagging her first major literary award in decades, another Costa (formerly Whitbread) award.
That's a hell of a thing to say of someone whose debut novel, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum," nabbed the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize from under Salman Rushdie's nose, provoking reactionary hand-wringing and sexist screeds from Britain's literary press.
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