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2005 Longlist

The Time Traveller’s Wife

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

The Time Traveller’s Wife is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. 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 misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.
The novel depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare’s marriage and their passionate love for each other, as the story unfolds from both points of view. Clare and Henry attempt to live normal lives, pursuing familiar goals- steady jobs, good friends, children of their own. All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent not control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Audrey
Niffenegger

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