The Time Traveler's Wife
A Novel
A love story with a temporal wobble and plenty of emotional aftershocks.
- Themes
- Love and Fate, Time Travel, Romantic Relationships
- Pacing
- Mixed
Time-Slip Romance
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- immersive time-slip romance
- marriage under pressure
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- book-club-friendly questions
- familiar domestic stakes, rearranged
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“A soaring celebration of the victory of love over time.” —Chicago Tribune
The iconic time travel love story and beloved modern classic that has captivated readers worldwide.
Henry DeTamble is a dashing, adventurous librarian travels involuntarily through time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. Clare Abshire is an artist whose life moves through a natural sequential course. This is the celebrated and timeless tale of their love.
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Henry and Clare's passionate affair is built and endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love.
“Niffenegger plays ingeniously in her temporal hall of mirrors.”—The New Yorker
“A magical experience from start to finish.” –Elle
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- Interview with Audrey NiffeneggerAn interview from Dear Author. Niffenegger discusses the novel’s anniversary digital edition, its storytelling choices, and additional material about Clare, Henry, and Alba.
- Audrey Niffenegger on The Time Traveler’s Wife, Book Design, and CollectingAn interview from Fine Books & Collections. Niffenegger reflects on how the novel’s success affected her creative life, alongside discussion of her art and collecting.
Publisher details
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Time Travel Fiction
- Magical Realism
- Multiple-Timeline Fiction
- Authors
- Audrey Niffenegger
- Publisher
- Hanover Square Press
- Published
- Forthcoming
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction