This book, is perfect.
The Time Traveller’s wife is simply the most enjoyable, touching, moving, insatiable book I have ever read.
The basic premise is obvious, a man time travels and he gets married. But where as all time travel novels find them self bound by the laws of quantum physics, the risk of paradox and the redundancy of free thought… Audrey Niffenegger bypasses all of this by having Henry flip through time involuntarily, put simply his body clock is all messed up.
And so begins the intertwining of lives between Henry, and Claire, from when Claire’s is six, Henry appears, naked, in the meadow at the top of her parents garden, and when Claire is 22 two, Henry meets her for the first time, though she’s known him for years. So, through the suddenly flexible and circular world of a flexible timescape these two perfectly matched people embark on life together, and the search to find an answer, or solution to Henry’s abnormality.
The world Niffenegger creates is so real, the book holds little by way of imagery but is a tremendously visual experience, gripping, imaginative beyond belief, heart rending, no book has every brought me to tears. Using her creation Niffenegger explores what makes us human, what makes us delicate, what we should not always know about our futures.
This book will absorb, willingly the reader, and refuse to let them go, even as dark clouds loom and you begin to realise you may not be able to take the ending.
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