Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill

Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill

A dangerous rescue attempt in Michigan has captured the attention of the entire country. A two-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft. Ursula Wong is the only child of a poor family and referred to by one member of the TV audience as 'half-breed trailer trash', not worth all the expense. But Ursula is the last of her family line and her story explodes into a gorgeous saga of culture, history and heredity. Ursula's forebears include a second-century BC Chinese alchemist; an orphaned consort to a Swedish queen; and Ursula's great-great-grandfather, Jake Maki, a miner who died in a cave-in aged twenty-nine. Ursula's fate echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that any given individual's life comes to seem a miracle.

A chronicle of lives as strange and fantastical as fairy tales..An amazing feat of imagination...a delight of design. For colour and ambition this debut is hard to fault * Daily Mail *
Boy, can Ingrid Hill tell stories * Guardian *
An epic formula that, thanks to the author's no-frills execution, works remarkably well. Vivid...playful storytelling...The cumulative weight of family history lends the novel emotional heft * Independent *
An amazing feat of imagination. This debut is hard to fault * Observer *
Mind-blowing. This bold novel is an enlightening, gripping read * Eve *

Ingrid Hill is the author of a collection of stories, Dixie Church Interstate Blues. The mother of twelve children, she lives in Iowa City.

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ISBN 13	9780099479864
ISBN 10	0099479869
Title	Ursula Under
Author	Ingrid Hill
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2006-01-05
Number of pages	496
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