On a cold, snowy night of 1910, Ursula Todd was born—the third child of a prosperous English banker and his wife. Unfortunately, the girl died before she ever managed to take her first breath. And on the very same cold, snowy night, Ursula Todd gave a loud cry and entered a life that, in the end, can be called unusual. As she grows, she also dies—again and again, in the most varied ways. Obviously, history (as well as Kate Atkinson) has plans for the girl: in Ursula, nothing less than the fate of an entire civilization is laid out.
Unstoppably inventive, darkly comic, astonishingly sharp—this is a novel written in the best traditions of Kate Atkinson.