A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair 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
Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and a guide at Highgate Cemetery. In addition to the bestselling novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, she is the author of three illustrated novels, The Three Incestuous Sisters, The Adventuress, and The Night Bookmobile, and the editor of Ghostly. She lives in Chicago.
"[A] time-travel love story par excellence...It will be a hard-hearted reader who is not moved to tears by the dangers Henry and Clare ultimately face, and by the author's soaring celebration of the victory of love over time." - Chicago Tribune
"As Clare and Henry take turns telling the story, revealing the depth of their bond despite everything a sci-fi premise becomes a powerfully original love story." - People
"Spirited...Niffenegger plays ingeniously in her temporal hall of mirrors." - The New Yorker
"Readers will recall in Love in the Time of Cholera a love that works despite all travails and impediments...Marquez, like Niffenegger here, means to tell us that for such exalted love there is no tragedy and never any constraints." - The Washington Post
"Niffenegger's inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip." - Entertainment Weekly
"Moving, razor-edged prose...Niffenegger writes with the unflinching yet detached clarity of a war correspondent standing at the sidelines of an unfolding battle." - USA Today
