That's what expectations do to you--I think if I hadn't heard so much about it I would've enjoyed it more. I did, though (non-stop reading, I ate the book), but I also found it extremely upsetting? (Am I being melodramatic?). Tbh, I wish I had had that idea. She just DIES so many times... 
 Later: Arg I keep forgetting I have finished this book and I want to keep reading the lives of Ursula but then I remember it's over I NEED SOME SENSE OF CLOSURE!! 
 Even later: The book's about a woman, Ursula, who every time she dies she's born again. Regretfully, she dies many many times. At first she doesn't remember, but there's a point she realises she has memories from other lives, and that something strange is happening. It's great because it's the study of a character, but because Atkinson has chosen such an eventful period (Ursula is born in 1910), it's also a brilliant historical novel.