{"id":6954,"date":"2025-01-08T22:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-time-travellers-wife-audrey-niffenegger-its-good-to-read\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:06:51","slug":"the-time-travellers-wife-audrey-niffenegger-its-good-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=6954","title":{"rendered":"The Time Travellers Wife \u2013 Audrey Niffenegger \u2013 It’s Good To Read"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story is essentially a time-travelling love story. Henry DeTamble has Chrono-Displacement \u2013 he periodically gets pulled out of linear time to moments in his past, present and future. All those he loves are in linear time, so they are older or younger, depending on when he is displaced to.<\/p>\n

Clare is the eponymous wife, who meets Henry when she is six \u2013 and he is thirty six. He meets her for the first time when he is twenty-eight., and she is twenty or so. Because of time travel, he arrives in the new time completely naked. His first objective is always to get clothed, and the young Clare helps him do this. He tells her he is a time-traveller, and thus (for Clare) their relationship starts.\u00a0 What she has yet to learn, is that this man is her future husband, whom she marries when about 23, and he is about 30.<\/p>\n

We then follow their lives, as told from their alternating viewpoints. The story highlights the importance of common touch-points (e.g. Henry\u2019s punk music, the love of books, etc.) in a relationship.<\/p>\n

Main Characters:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Henry DeTamble:<\/u> His world famous violinist mother dies in a car crash when he was young, which was his first instance of time-travelling. He is always looking to find himself, and can be self-centred at times. The insecurity caused by the randomness of his episodes keeps him constantly on edge.<\/p>\n

Clare:<\/u> A strong character, who has had the time to get used to his disappearances. She is an artist in her own right.<\/p>\n

Minor Characters:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kendrick:<\/u> A geneticist that Henry tracks down, to try and make sense of his condition. Hard to convince at the start, Henry seals a letter to him, to be opened after a particular event, and Kendrick is converted.<\/p>\n

What I Liked:<\/strong><\/p>\n