![]() Until she dies anyway – and then is born again. ![]() ![]() During her third bout of influenza, something begins to leak through to Ursula from those other selves, warning her, making her feel an incoherent dread, turning her into an odd little person, dreamy and haunted. The second time, her little brother Teddy, her mother’s favourite, has also just died of the virus her mother, demented with grief, hardly has attention to spare for poor Ursula. The first time she dies of influenza, she is tended to the last by her broken-hearted mother. Over and over again, Ursula Todd is born on 11 February 1910 over and over again, she dies – at birth, or drowning at the beach aged five, or falling out of a window, aged five again. K ate Atkinson’s previous novel, Life After Life, played an ingenious game with time. ![]()
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