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Rent Life After Life: A Novel
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Narrator: Woolgar, Fenella
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Published: Apr 2013
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $29.98
Discs: 11
Synopsis
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?
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Reviews
I found this book very enjoyable. The time period of 19181970 is fascinating and to live through it via various lives of the same character was a wonderful twist. I had to concentrate to realize how the author was bouncing around the various time periods, but that is what made it different. Good read for sure.