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Audrey Niffenegger, “Time Travellers Wife”, Vintage, London, 2005

I am on page 431, 81 pages to go -- and I don’t want this book to end.

This is the first novel by a woman who has been involved in a lifetime of writing and book production; she is a professor at the Columbia College.

What an amazing development of a novel concept – time travel that almost appears possible in dated sections that initially seem impossible for the author to correlate. Complicated? It is but the reader quickly grasps what is happening and keeps flicking back to dated chapter headings. I won’t go further with the structure -- I could not do it justice. 

Two key characters, Henry and Claire, tell their story.

It really is a love story and direct in the sensual inter-relationship they share naturally through the story.  The experience they share is clearly a woman’s dream but is actually what every man would love to have in his partner too, if he is fortunate to have the knowledge and the right partner.  That female author, Audrey, understands Claire’s needs is not surprising; that she portrays Henry as if she were also a man, is riveting.

But to write like this needs experience, which seems to lead to the very last paragraph in the “acknowledgements” at the end.  She writes...
”Last and best, thanks to Christopher Schneberger: I waited for you, and now you’re here. ”

Thanks Audrey for several hours of enjoyment; may you and Chris have a full life.

-- PER

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