# Ursula Under

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- Book: [Ursula Under](https://www.bookquiver.com/ingrid-hill/ursula-under) ([Ursula Under.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ingrid-hill/ursula-under.md))
- Authors: [Ingrid Hill](https://www.bookquiver.com/ingrid-hill)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-213-7
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2015-07-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.