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The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate·spoiler

Why Read This?

A love story built on absence—Henry disappears involuntarily through time, and Clare spends decades waiting. Niffenegger makes the conceit work because the emotional core is brutally grounded. It starts sweet and gets heavier; by the end you will understand why so many people have cried through the last hundred pages.

Synopsis

Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful 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: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing. ([source][1]) [1]: https://www.audreyniffenegger.com/published-books/2015/4/22/the-time-travelers-wife-2005

At a Glance

4.00 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingslow burn

Top Tropes

time-spanning love

Mood

yearning

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

4.00 ★

Page Count

546 pages

Published

2003

Primary Genre

Literary Fiction

Pairing

M/F

POV

Dual POV

Romance Pacing

Slow Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Full Cast

Narrator

Fred Berman|Phoebe Strole

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
Theme Constellation

Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Spice Details 🌶️

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pregnancy loss

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