Life After Life

It opens with a Tarantino-esque scene with our protagonist walking into a German cafe, ordering a streusel and shooting Hitler. Darkness falls, Ursula Todd's life is reset and we're back at her birth. From there it's like I'm the world's worst Choose Your Own Adventure reader killing off my protagonist at birth, drowning as a child at the beach or falling out a window in search of a toy. I'm starting to wonder how I managed to survive my own childhood.

It's a life defined by singular, unremarkable moments. A fall on a street corner, a painter on a beach can change the tenor of Ursula's life significantly. She even gains a vague awareness of having been here before, a sense of pivotal moments. Speculative fiction? Light sci-fi?

Kate Atkinson never bores with each retelling but I've finished with so many questions.