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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.

Secular Shelf Life Sarah Allen

LIFE AFTER LIFE
By Kate Atkinson
Doubleday. 477 pages. £18.99
ISBN 978 0 385 618 670