Ursula

Ursula is the main protagonist in this novel. As such, the novel focuses on her as the 'time traveler' though the first third of the book chronicles Sylvie's life as she interacts with Ursula. What one can take from the early chapters and Ursula's childhood is that she became 'aware' of her past lives memories. The first inclination was when she felt complete dread at the beach. Having drowned and died in that surf one timeline previously, in the new timeline, she is terrified to go into the surf. In yet another timeline, her cousin, Roland, dies, instead. Also, as a child, she died by crawling out onto the roof after a doll, then falls to her death. On the 'reset' she does not go out onto the roof and lives. Later, in several different timelines reset, she manages to make sure that Bridget does not go to...