Kate Atkinson got into the big league of modern literature on her first try: her debut novel “The Museum of My Secrets” received the prestigious Whitbread Prize, beating “The Moor’s Farewell Sigh” by Salman Rushdie, and the series of novels about private detective Jackson Brody, which managed to fall in love with to the Russian reader (“Crimes of the Past”, “A Turn for the Better”, “Should We Expect Good News?”, “It’s Daylight, Together with a Dog”), Stephen King dubbed “the main detective project of the decade.” And here is the amazing world bestseller “Life after life,” which told how to finally live the 20th century correctly through trial and error, is followed by its sequel, “Gods Among Men.” And if Ursula Todd lived many lives, then her brother Teddy lived only one, but a very long one. He studied the poetry of William Blake at Oxford, and then harvested crops in southern France, he bombed Berlin at the helm of a four-engine Halifax, and then became convinced that there are gods among men: after all, as Emerson put it, man himself is a failed deity...< /p>