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Content levels
ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentMild
LanguageMild
Trigger warnings
DeathWarGriefTraumaViolence
Positive tags
Coming of AgeSecond ChanceSelf-DiscoveryRedemption Arc
Tropes
Time LoopAlternate HistoryMultiverseReluctant Hero
Themes
Fate vs Free WillIdentitySecond ChancesWar and Its ConsequencesMemoryThe Weight of ChoiceHistorical Trauma
Synopsis
What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can -- will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original: this is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.
Tags
Literary FictionHistorical FictionTime TravelPhilosophical Fiction