The Time Traveler’s Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Sep 2013 · Zola Books

About this ebook

 Audrey Niffenegger's dazzling debut is the story of Clare, a beautiful, strong-minded 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: his genetic clock randomly resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous and unpredictable, and lend a spectacular urgency to Clare and Henry's unconventional love story. That their attempt to live normal lives together is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control makes their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

Ratings and reviews

Amazing, wonderfully time fractured love story of two people and their separate time together and the very different perspectives of the experience. So very different from the inferior film version...although well cast, was sadly lacking the emotional depth of the book.

This book has everything and in the end I was in tears, unsure if they were happy or sad or both. This book has enveloped me and thrust me back into reading after a long hiatus. I can speak nothing but praise, the author controls the twisting timelines expertly.

This book left me breathless. Amazingly well written and kept me involved. I could not put it down. The movie did not live up to the book at all. It is an entirely different experience. Don't even bother with the movie, just read this book!

About the author

Audrey Niffenegger is a 21st century Renaissance woman - an exceptionally creative writer and visual artist who has achieved enormous success in both worlds. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, has sold more than seven million copies and has been translated into forty languages. A film version was released in August 2009. Her second novel, HER FEARFUL SYMMETRY, was published in 2009 and became another New York Times and international bestseller.

Niffenegger is also the author of three "novels-in-pictures," THE THREE INCESTUOUS SISTERS, THE ADVENTURESS, and THE NIGHT BOOKMOBILE. The Gothic mood of her original artwork has led some to compare it to the work ofAubrey Beardsley and Edward Gorey.

A Chicago native, Niffenegger received her MFA in Printmaking and Drawing from Northwestern University. Her art has been widely exhibited in the United States and is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress and Harvard University's Houghton Library. She has remained with her original gallery,PrintWorks, for almost two decades.

She is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her most recent interdisciplinary project is a collaboration with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden on an original ballet, entitled "Raven Girl."