Kellet, following the incident with Bridget and the stairs. Ten-year-old Ursula is introduced to a psychiatrist, Dr. When the gas goes out in her building, she goes to sleep, knowing that if the gas comes back on, she will likely die. Ursula is also depressed by the loss of her younger brother. Sylvie is also dead her grief over Teddy led her to commit suicide. Teddy is dead the plane he was piloting went down in flames. Ursula is living in London and has endured a long, hard war. The narrative flashes forward from the end of World War I to the end of World War II, in February 1947. In the final attempt, she pushes Bridget down the stairs, breaking her arm and finally preventing her from catching the flu. In her third attempt, Ursula pushes Bridget in the garden before she leaves, in the hopes that spraining her ankle will prevent her from going, but Bridget still decides to go. In her second attempt, she tries to prevent Bridget from reentering the house, leaving a note for her asking her to stay at Clarence’s house, but this is also thwarted. In the next timeline, she tries to avoid Bridget, but her younger brother Teddy catches the flu from Bridget and then passes it along to her. When she returns, she passes the illness on to eight-year-old Ursula, who then dies. For example, at the end of World War I, Bridget goes up to London to celebrate with her fiancé, Clarence, and catches the flu. This allows her to try to actively avert certain disasters. Ursula also starts to get a sense of “déjà vu.” In each subsequent timeline a wave of terror washes over her before she takes the action that led to her death in a previous timeline. In the next timeline, Bridget comes upstairs and stops her just in time. She ventures out of the window, slips on ice, and flies off of the roof. When she is five, her older brother, Maurice, throws a doll of hers out of the bedroom window. When she is four years old, she goes to the beach with her family and is led into rough waters by her older sister Pamela and drowns in her next life, she is saved by a man painting by the water who notices the girls wade out into the ocean. Ursula grows up, but experiences a variety of deaths when she is young, and is reborn in the same circumstances each time afterward. Fellowes arrives in time, and snips Ursula’s umbilical cord with surgical scissors, saving her. When Ursula is born, her umbilical cord is wrapped around her throat, strangling her. Sylvie’s husband, Hugh, is also away, retrieving his rebellious sixteen-year-old sister, Izzie, from Paris, where she had become pregnant by her lover. Haddock, are stuck in a giant snow storm that has hit the town. Her mother, Sylvie, and the Todds’ maid, Bridget, try to deliver the baby as best they can both the town doctor, Dr. Ursula is born in the Todd house (called Fox Corner) in a London suburb in February 1910. Ursula is then shot by his henchmen, and darkness falls. She sits down next to Adolf Hitler, and has a short, polite conversation with him, until she pulls out a gun and shoots him. The novel begins when Ursula Todd enters a café in Germany.
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