In another life Ursula spends the war in London and volunteers in the ARP. We follow the many possible lives of Ursula, one that finds her married to a man who became a member of the Hitler elite and stranded in Germany during the war she experiences the war from the other side. Memories of her seemingly idyllic childhood fortified her though the hardships in her various lives.
Ursula, his little bear, was her father’s favourite and Teddy, her mother’s. Their father Hugh fought in WW1 and then resumed his career as a London banker. The third child in a comfortable middle-class family living in a village in the Home Counties, Ursula has two older siblings Maurice, the odd child out disliked by everyone, and Pamela, the down to earth sporty one, plus two young brothers Teddy, loved by all, and Jimmy the youngest. The novel follows the several possible lives of Ursula, the main character, from her birth in 1910 until when? We don’t know as the book concludes with Ursula being born again. If you have ever wondered what your life would have been like if you’d taken a different decision at certain points in your life, then this is Atkinson’s key idea.
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