Life After Life

GoodReads Book Review

I could not put this book down. 529 pages, and I read it in a 24 hour period! Imagine being born time, and time again, into the same life, with the opportunity of improving things each time you were reborn. Ursula dies before she is born, and then is reborn, only to strangle in childbirth. She is born again, and lives until an accident takes her life. Over and over, on the same day of the same year she is born. People, circumstances change, improve, worsen, and still she comes back again and again. What a fascinating concept. What if you had the change to right the wrongs of the world - what would you choose to do?

Ursula's life begins in 1910 in the English countryside not far from London. She lives (repeatedly) through WWl and WWll. Life After Life is a fictionalized look at historical events in England and Germany during the war years; in fact, in one of her lives she become best friends with Hitler's mistress Ava. During her life's struggles, she finds herself wondering how her life became what it was. This is one of the most intriguing books I have read in a very long time.