In England on November 11, 1910, a baby girl is born. Soon after she takes her first breath, she takes her last.
In England on November 11, 1910, a baby girl is born, and the presence of a doctor saves her life. The girl, Ursula, lives happily with her family in the English countryside until an accident once again cuts her life short.
In England on November 11, 1910, Ursula is born over and over again, as new choices and chance happenings slightly alter the version of her life she is building. She must do what she can to protect herself and those around her from making fatal mistakes, while also navigating young adulthood during a devastating war. Will the cycle ever end? Ursula does not know. All she knows is that she must make the most of her life each time she lives it.
This is quite a long book but also a very captivating one--especially for those interested in historical fiction. The horrors of WWII on Europe are central to this story, but they are not the only thing that proves fatal. Danger lurks around every corner of Ursula's lives in the form of strangers on the road, faulty gas lines, and sudden air raids. The way the chapters are organized in a jumble of time allows readers to put themselves in Ursula's shoes for a moment by knowing the things that could happen at any given time. It is scary to think how close we all may have come to death, but perhaps, as Ursula does, we are simply living out our second/third/fourth chance.
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