Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 518 pages

Evening Standard
`A rare book'

Daily Express, Chosen by Amanda Holden
I could not put this book down. I was enthralled...

Synopsis
This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and 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 Time Traveler's Wife depicts the effects of time travel on Henry and Clare's passionate love for each other with grace and humour. Their struggle to lead normal lives in the face of a force they can neither prevent nor control is intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

Customer Reviews

Unputdownable!
An obscure concept that totally works. I haven't enjoyed a book this much in a long time!

Slow
After reading this drearily slow book, I was amazed to read the Amazon reviews. Are we talking about the same book?
I agree it has a good ending, but the rest of the book was like taking a walk in lead boots. Hard going!

Interesting and enjoyable but dragged in the middle
The concept for this book is amazing - time travel - what a ridiculous idea but it works incredibly well. The structure of the book is handled very carefully and there are no flaws in the movements in time.
After I had got my mind around the time movement concept and settled into the book, I then found myself waiting for something else to happen to take the story to the next stage and nothing did. I felt that the story was very lacking in the middle and only came back to life again at the end of the book.
The last 50 pages were really enjoyable to read. I found that I had been reading really quickly for a while up to that point as nothing new had been happening for some time and when I got towards the end had to slow down to take in the beautiful ending.
I am not simply looking for a thriller in a read but expected more to happen alongside the amazing idea of time travel.