Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

Ursula Todd is born in 1910 but dies before she can draw a first breath.  In 1910, Ursula Todd is born and her life is miraculously saved.  Over the next five decades she dies and lives again multiple times.  At a very young age she learns that each time she is given a chance to rewrite the future.  Unfortunately there is no way of knowing whether the consequences of the path you don't know are better or worse than the one you have already traveled or what will happen to the individuals that are traveling with you.  Should she alter her fate at the expense of others?  Does she sacrifice the one for the good of the many?  These are choices she must make through two world wars.  These are the choices that can alter the lives of her own family and in one case, maybe change the course of history.  But if it is history that makes the man instead of the other way around, maybe there is little that can be done.  There is constant traveling back and forth in time although it is mainly two war stories.  The literary quotes sprinkled throughout the conversations provide a sense of the timeless circular nature of human experience.  Can we accurately identify points in our life where the a choice would make a difference?