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The Time Traveler's Wife
  • Published: 1 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099464464
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $22.99

The Time Traveler's Wife

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1 Oct 2004
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Clare and Henry met when Clare was just six and Henry thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty.

Impossible but true.

The Time Traveler's Wife is the international bestselling novel of a time-altering love. Henry is a librarian who suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets, finding himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. Meanwhile, Clare is an artist waiting all her life for her great love Henry to appear. In the face of this force neither can prevent nor control, Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

'Dark, unpredictable, incredibly clever and a modern romance' Grazia
  • Published: 1 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099464464
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Audrey Niffenegger

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects include a ballet, Raven Girl, in collaboration with Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet.

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Praise for The Time Traveler's Wife

At its core The Time Traveler's Wife is an old-fashioned love story. A terrific book - startlingly original construction

Observer

I was ridiculously entranced by Audrey Niffenegger's big, reckless novel...utterly convincing

Daily Telegraph

Niffenegger exploits the possibilities of her fantasy scenario with immense skill: no wonder this novel has spent weeks on the bestseller lists in the US. This is one of those books that makes you want to eat it up from start to finish

Guardian

Wonky, sexy, incredible

The Times

Pick up Niffenegger's book and you'll experience a visceral thrill that only a few novels provide. An elegy to love and loss

Independent on Sunday

Magical - memorable...poignant, amusing and intensely moving portrait of a unique relationship - quirky, romantic, and kept the right side of cute

Mail on Sunday

Truly original

Vogue

The central story is so strong and touching...ingenious... A rare book

Evening Standard

A sweet, original fantasy - its flights of authorial fancy balanced by down-to-earth characters and the matter-of-fact language

Sunday Telegraph

Henry's journeys back and forth are by turns slapstick noir and unbearably poignant, and Clare's child and teen narrations disturbingly pitch-perfect. Philosophical speculation occurs in the most unlikely devices and morality, despite the temptations of plot, remains intact. This is alarmingly close to perfection, and balm to the jaded

Scotland on Sunday