"The Time Traveller's Wife "

by Audrey Niffenegger

This extraordinary, magical novel is part science fiction, part fantasy, part adventure and part love story. It tells the story of an art student, Clare, and a librarian, Henry, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. His disappearances are spontaneous and his experiences are alternately harrowing and amusing.

The book depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's passionate love for each other with grace and humour, it explores their attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals - steady jobs, good friends, children of their own etc, which is all threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

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