Kate Atkinson - Archive Interview #300 (6/30/14)

Interview from the archives with Kate Atkinson, whose latest novel is Life After Life. We spoke in 2011 about her most recent Jackson Brody novel, Started Early, Took My Dog.

This week’s Write The Book Prompt is inspired by Kate Atkinson’s latest book, Life After Life, published in 2013. Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. In crafting Ursula’s narrative, Kate Atkinson played quite a lot with time: the passage of time and the way events might change if lives could be repeated with changed insight or enhanced sense of premonition. This week, try to play around a little bit with time. Don’t necessarily have a character come back to life over and over, but perhaps present a single moment in time from various angles and perspectives. Or do something different with time - something unexpected and perhaps not quite chronological.

Good luck with this prompt and please listen next week for another.

Music credits: 1) “Dreaming 1″ - John Fink; 2) “Filter” - Dorset Greens (a Vermont band featuring several former South Burlington High School students, now alums).