The Time Traveler's Wife

By Audrey Niffenegger

Average Rating: (See all 16 reviews) Format: Paperback, 546 pages Published In: United States, July 2004 Quantity Available: 5450 Ships within 6-10 days Add to Cart Please wait, the system is processing. A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of a passionate love affair that endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap. From The Publisher: A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come. Publisher: Harvest Books ISBN: 015602943X EAN: 9780156029438 Dimensions: 20.02 x 13.61 x 2.54 centimeters (0.52 kg)

An astounding premise for a story - a time traveller who has an enduring love for his future wife - as he stumbles back and forth through a hundred years or so of his life. Henry DeTamble is a nerdy librarian with an amazing ability to find trouble. His knack comes from a chromosomal abnormality that enables him to time-travel. At times of stress, he disappears from the present to arrive in the past or the future, naked and nauseous, and often in dangerous situations. The common themes to his travel are loss (his mother), love (his wife Clare) and troubled relationships (ex-girlfriend Ingrid and alcoholic father). The characters are flawed and yet the story is believable, as Henry often gives Clare future important dates and his loved ones information about the stock market and lottery numbers, but he can not alter the future...
While it is, in essence a love story, it does not descend into the sentimental. It can be a bit difficult to keep track of the time-line and secondary characters at times, but it is well written and tightly paced so as to leave you constantly turning to the next page. I can guarantee that the last few chapters will leave you with a lump in your throat and tears welling...especially the last line of Henry's love letter to Clare. "I love you, always. Time is nothing." Read it and weep. A thoroughly beautiful book.

The Time Traveler's Wife is an ingenious story told brilliantly. I found myself unable to put it down once I started reading. I wished it never ended! It is not your conventional love story but it is one of the most romantic love stories I have read in a long time. Definitely highly recommended!

I really enjoyed reading the time travellers wife. Has to be up there with on the best!..... Clare meets henry at a very young age, and patiently waits to meet this man in her future. Very well written and kept me wanting more. Can't wait for the movie coming out in 2009, staring eric bana.

I bought this book for my wife and it really sounded like a girly read. She said she loved it so I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it!! The whole time travel thing is excellent and adds to the story rather than detracts from it as some science fiction is want to do. There is a very good reason that this book is on the best-seller list, and those who we have recommended it to have enjoyed it also. Henry and Claire are truly likable characters written with a depth and warmth that makes it very sad to leave them behind when the last page has been read. This is a book that has stuck with me for some time, a memorable read.

5 Stars for this wonderfully constructed novel.
This is a beautifully unusual love story that flips back and forth through time. Happy and sad, I wept a few tears during this one.
If you want to read a story about a love that breaks the boundaries of time, this one is for you.
Some science fiction fans may also enjoy this one, though it is not a science fiction in the traditional sense.

A thought provoking love story, well written. Enjoyable if you are a reader who is able to suspend belief.

Didn't think this would be my sort of thing - but it so was.

A difficult book to keep up with for older readers as it chops and changes from age gaps. I enjoyed it in the finish as it is actually quite a beautiful story

Audrey Niffenegger is a paper artist (like Clare, the eponymous character), and the Time Traveller’s Wife is her first novel. This is a fairly unconventional story with a structure which reinforces Henry’s confusion stemming from his “chrono displacement syndrome”. A beautiful and tragic love story, and magic realism at its best. I recommend Niffenegger’s picture book “The Adventuress” as well.

Three words that would think to put together in a book - time travelling and romance. But it really worked and this book I simply could not put down. The lives of Henry and Clare grip you and tugs at your heart strings. Its the type of book that you dont want to end and could just read and read! But when you do get to the end, awwwwwww.