Ursula Todd is born in 1910 and promptly dies. Then she's born again (on the same day, same time), lives for awhile, experiences catastrophe, and dies again, and so on. Her 'life,' which is a word with a very fluid definition in this novel, is alternately smothered and revived through most of England's 20th century big-ticket events: Spanish flu, the Blitz, poor reproductive medicine (OK, not an event, exactly). She learns, or not, because she has only a partial view of her other lives. Don't think about it too much! Just read it! Fantastic entertainment which may have deep meaning, or no meaning at all, just like L I F E itself.
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