Life After Life

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?

Set in

• ★
  London · United Kingdom

  London during the Blitz; most vivid section of the novel
  ★ primary
• Buckinghamshire · United Kingdom

  Fictional country home Fox Corner, set in South Bucks; Ursula's childhood home
• Munich · Germany

  In one life Ursula moves to Munich, befriends Eva Braun, and joins Hitler's circle