Thursday

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

A wonderful romance between a slightly unusual couple... he suffers from a genetic condition that causes him to unexpectedly slip though time into different stages of his life. He never knows whether he's going forwards or back, and he develops a complex set of skills to enable his survival through this sometimes bloody, always shocking, series of transitions. His wife meets him while she is still a young girl, and as she says, spends her whole life "waiting" for him. At first a little difficult to keep track of where and when the two are juxtaposed, the story itself is a wonderful read and the relationship between the two protagonists is one of the best romance novels I've read in ages. I loved this book - the twists and turns kept me turning the pages even when the plot became a little strained. In the end, Niffenegger carries it off - a complex and respectable feat for a first novel.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

To follow up on Hannah's post, my name is Matt from Regal Literary.

Readers of this blog might be interested in knowing that Regal is giving away ten advanced reader’s copies and three first edition hardcovers of the new Audrey Niffenegger book, Her Fearful Symmetry, on October 1st in a lottery to anyone who joins the facebook page as a fan and sends an e-mail to hfs@regal-literary.com. Good luck!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Her-Fearful-Symmetry/68080996784

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