The Time Traveller’s Wife is one of my favourite recent reads. I first read it about a year ago and I loved it. I just re-read it and loved it more. This is one of those books I will read many, many times. From the opening poem, Love After Love :
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
To the very end, I cannot overestimate how much I love this book. It took me ages to re-read because I was savouring the words and enjoying every page.
The story is of a man who time travels and who marries a woman that he meets when she is 6 and he is older. Theire relationship grows on different planes – she has known him for virtually her whole life but he only discovers her as an adult. The book constantly moves between times and ages and deals with their relationship as well as the issues of time travel and how it affects the chacter’s lives. It is a truly wonderful book
Filed under: Recent Reads, fiction
