Check your subscription status, update your details and more. Time Traveler’s Wife sequel is far more complex than its predecessor Audrey Niffenegger’s Life Out of Order, a follow-up to her bestselling novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, is an intricate and thoughtful vision of a frightening future, says Alison Flood Audrey Niffenegger’s new book Life Out of Order is published this month I read _The Time Traveler’s Wife_ by Audrey Niffenegger when it came out in 2003. I loved it – and also loved the film adaptation, starring Rachel McAdams as Clare and Eric Bana as time traveller Henry.
Clare first meets Henry when she is 6 and he is 36; he doesn’t meet her, though, until he is 28, and she is 20. The book is often wrongly billed as a romance, but I never saw it quite as that – it’s deeper, more complex, than “just” a love story, leaving readers with all sorts of questions about predetermination and fate (Henry can return to the past, but he can’t change it, in Niffenegger’s version of time travel – a terrifying thought). Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox.
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