Secular shelf life

Sarah Allen  |  Features  |  Secular Shelf Life
Date posted:  1 May 2013
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LIFE AFTER LIFE
By Kate Atkinson
Doubleday. 477 pages. £18.99
ISBN 978 0 385 618 670

It is 1910. The snow is falling thickly, preventing Dr. Fellowes from attending Sibyl Todd who is in labour with her third child. The baby is delivered dead with the cord around its neck.

1910 again and through the snowstorm Dr. Fellowes appears with his surgical scissors, ready to cut the cord which is wrapped around the neck of little Ursula Todd.

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