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About the Author

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects include a ballet, Raven Girl, in collaboration with Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet.

Reviews

Moving, but worth the heartbreak
*Daily Express*

At its core The Time Traveler's Wife is an old-fashioned love story. A terrific book - startlingly original construction
*Observer*

I was ridiculously entranced by Audrey Niffenegger's big, reckless novel...utterly convincing
*Daily Telegraph*

Niffenegger exploits the possibilities of her fantasy scenario with immense skill: no wonder this novel has spent weeks on the bestseller lists in the US. This is one of those books that makes you want to eat it up from start to finish
*Guardian*

Wonky, sexy, incredible
*The Times*

Pick up Niffenegger's book and you'll experience a visceral thrill that only a few novels provide. An elegy to love and loss
*Independent on Sunday*

Truly original
*Vogue*

Magical - memorable...poignant, amusing and intensely moving portrait of a unique relationship - quirky, romantic, and kept the right side of cute
*Mail on Sunday*

The central story is so strong and touching...ingenious... A rare book
*Evening Standard*

A sweet, original fantasy - its flights of authorial fancy balanced by down-to-earth characters and the matter-of-fact language
*Sunday Telegraph*

Henry's journeys back and forth are by turns slapstick noir and unbearably poignant, and Clare's child and teen narrations disturbingly pitch-perfect. Philosophical speculation occurs in the most unlikely devices and morality, despite the temptations of plot, remains intact. This is alarmingly close to perfection, and balm to the jaded
*Scotland on Sunday*

One of those books where you read the first paragraph and you're hooked... Unmissable
*Irish Independent*

From the first page to the last, The Time Traveler's Wife works its unique magic... A beautiful, lyrical book
*The Times*

After I read it I wanted to share it with everybody, and even gave a copy to Madonna when she co-presented my show
*Easy Living*

Dark, unpredictable, incredibly clever and a modern romance
*Grazia*

A delight
*Bookseller*

A love affair that will totally capture your heart
*Glamour Magazine*

An irrestible romance
*InStyle*

A beautifully written, compulsive look at a couple trying to live an ordinary life in extraordinary circumstances
*Image*

An intriguing, often funny love story
*Eve*

This highly original first novel won the largest advance San Francisco-based MacAdam/Cage had ever paid, and it was money well spent. Niffenegger has written a soaring love story illuminated by dozens of finely observed details and scenes, and one that skates nimbly around a huge conundrum at the heart of the book: Henry De Tamble, a rather dashing librarian at the famous Newberry Library in Chicago, finds himself unavoidably whisked around in time. He disappears from a scene in, say, 1998 to find himself suddenly, usually without his clothes, which mysteriously disappear in transit, at an entirely different place 10 years earlier-or later. During one of these migrations, he drops in on beautiful teenage Clare Abshire, an heiress in a large house on the nearby Michigan peninsula, and a lifelong passion is born. The problem is that while Henry's age darts back and forth according to his location in time, Clare's moves forward in the normal manner, so the pair are often out of sync. But such is the author's tenderness with the characters, and the determinedly ungimmicky way in which she writes of their predicament (only once do they make use of Henry's foreknowledge of events to make money, and then it seems to Clare like cheating) that the book is much more love story than fantasy. It also has a splendidly drawn cast, from Henry's violinist father, ruined by the loss of his wife in an accident from which Henry time-traveled as a child, to Clare's odd family and a multitude of Chicago bohemian friends. The couple's daughter, Alba, inherits her father's strange abilities, but this is again handled with a light touch; there's no Disney cuteness here. Henry's foreordained end is agonizing, but Niffenegger has another card up her sleeve, and plays it with poignant grace. It is a fair tribute to her skill and sensibility to say that the book leaves a reader with an impression of life's riches and strangeness rather than of easy thrills. (Sept. 9) Forecast: This was one of the talked-about books at BEA, and is exactly the sort of original literary debut that better booksellers love to handsell; a likely Book Sense choice could give it a further push. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Moving, but worth the heartbreak * Daily Express *
At its core The Time Traveler's Wife is an old-fashioned love story. A terrific book - startlingly original construction * Observer *
I was ridiculously entranced by Audrey Niffenegger's big, reckless novel...utterly convincing * Daily Telegraph *
Niffenegger exploits the possibilities of her fantasy scenario with immense skill: no wonder this novel has spent weeks on the bestseller lists in the US. This is one of those books that makes you want to eat it up from start to finish * Guardian *
Wonky, sexy, incredible * The Times *
Pick up Niffenegger's book and you'll experience a visceral thrill that only a few novels provide. An elegy to love and loss * Independent on Sunday *
Truly original * Vogue *
Magical - memorable...poignant, amusing and intensely moving portrait of a unique relationship - quirky, romantic, and kept the right side of cute * Mail on Sunday *
The central story is so strong and touching...ingenious... A rare book * Evening Standard *
A sweet, original fantasy - its flights of authorial fancy balanced by down-to-earth characters and the matter-of-fact language * Sunday Telegraph *
Henry's journeys back and forth are by turns slapstick noir and unbearably poignant, and Clare's child and teen narrations disturbingly pitch-perfect. Philosophical speculation occurs in the most unlikely devices and morality, despite the temptations of plot, remains intact. This is alarmingly close to perfection, and balm to the jaded * Scotland on Sunday *
One of those books where you read the first paragraph and you're hooked... Unmissable * Irish Independent *
From the first page to the last, The Time Traveler's Wife works its unique magic... A beautiful, lyrical book * The Times *
After I read it I wanted to share it with everybody, and even gave a copy to Madonna when she co-presented my show * Easy Living *
Dark, unpredictable, incredibly clever and a modern romance * Grazia *
A delight * Bookseller *
A love affair that will totally capture your heart * Glamour Magazine *
An irrestible romance * InStyle *
A beautifully written, compulsive look at a couple trying to live an ordinary life in extraordinary circumstances * Image *
An intriguing, often funny love story * Eve *