Ursula lives life after life
with subtle changes taking place during each one. Some of her lives are long
and some are very brief. It gave one a lot to think about, especially about
time and choices. Many may wonder about their own lives and the choices they
have made and how things might have been different if an alternate course had
been taken. Reading this book about Ursula allows one to see the repercussions
of making different choices and how that changes things in one's life.
This book is ripe with well-developed characters and an intriguing storyline which
could easily be bungled in a less accomplished writer. Atkinson takes the reader on a journey which
seamlessly goes from a quiet country home, to London at the height of the Blitz
and even to Berchtesgaden and Hitler’s inner circle. This book isn’t about death, but more about
life. About our possible paths, about
family, about history, and about ripples and traps and the horrors of war.
Recommended by Monica Shine
