![]() ![]() Certain timelines, e.g., one in which Ursula is trapped in a nightmarish marriage with a violent academic, land with a sickening power. Sometimes she is able to effect change within her own life via premonitions in others, a character new to the narrative alters Ursula’s history or our own. ![]() Some of Ursula’s lives are brutally short. Slowly, Ursula becomes aware of her unique existence from lifetime to lifetime, she endeavors to discover the reasons behind this condition. As Ursula is born and dies again and again, different lurking dangers present themselves: riptides, an influenza epidemic, the Blitz. The novel then repeats the event, but now Ursula’s birth yields jubilation rather than sorrow. However, she herself is killed-and the narrative returns to the moment of Ursula’s birth, in 1910. The year is 1930 Ursula Todd approaches Adolf Hitler with a gun and fires. Kate Atkinson’s new novel opens with a jarring display of violence. ![]()
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