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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