“You read the whole thing loving it, engrossed in the characters, and then she washes the ground completely from beneath your feet and you realise it was something different all along – it’s so clever.”Ītkinson describes A God in Ruins as “a ‘companion’ piece rather than a sequel” to Life After Life.
“That’s what this book is doing,” said Rentzenbrink. Rentzenbrink, who judged the best novel prize with the novelist Louise Doughty and the bookseller David Headley, added that A God in Ruins’ author’s note, in which Atkinson writes of how she believes that “all novels are not only fiction but they are about fiction too”, “deserves to win a prize for itself”. It fits with her work, while also being a crowning triumph.” “I don’t think there’s anybody whose life would not be enriched by reading it. “I think it’s just astonishing, a stunning, stunning book,” said judge and author Cathy Rentzenbrink, of A God in Ruins. “I’m delighted that it has been chosen as Costa novel of the year, after Life After Life was similarly recognised.”
“A God in Ruins is possibly the best novel I’ve written so it is absolutely wonderful to have it validated in this way,” said Atkinson today. A God In Ruins by Kate Atkinson Photograph: PR
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