The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger

Summary

This bestselling and innovative debut novel asks: What if two people who loved each other deeply faced a life in which one person remained constant while the other slipped fluidly in and out of time?

Young lovers often believe themselves crossed by fate or by time, but those in Niffenegger's spirited first novel have more reason than most. Henry suffers from Chrono-Impairment—a quasi-medical condition that catapults him, unwillingly, from one random point in time to another. Clare first meets him in 1977, when she is six and he materializes near her parents' garden as a thirty-six-year-old from 2000; he returns regularly throughout her childhood from different times in their shared future.

Often lighthearted, thoroughly original, and ultimately profoundly moving, the real story of the book is the lifelong love Clare and Henry share as they try to make the most of the times they have together -- the times when Henry is not traveling. Subtle but powerful, The Time Traveler's Wife is a book whose importance becomes more evident with each turn of the page, provoking readers to ask ourselves if we've made the most of the moments of our lives—moments so fleeting, we could be time travelers ourselves.

Praise

What The Time Traveler's Wife does best is to show the inner life of an enduring relationship as only its protagonists can know it. — The Washington Post

Niffenegger's beautiful prose and sure-handed way with character development lifts The Time Traveler's Wife beyond the realm of romance potboilers and into the mainstream of literature that will last. — The Denver Post

About the Author

An instructor at Columbia College's Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago, Audrey Niffenegger teaches her students how to print type on letterpresses and craft limited-edition books by hand. She lives in Chicago. This is her first novel.

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