Description

The Time Traveler’s Wife is the debut novel by American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in 2003. It is a love story about Henry, a man with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about Clare, his wife, an artist who has to cope with his frequent absences. They met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry was thirty. Henry and Clare’s struggle to lead normal lives as Henry’s genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future, which they can neither prevent nor control.