The Time Traveler's Wife

A very well crafted love story. It sounds cheesy but it made me laugh and it made me cry...which for me is a rare thing in a book. I would say I defy any straight woman not to fall in love with the character of Henry by about 20 pages in but I know someone who hated all the characters and the book so clearly it is possible- as a side point why they've cast Eric Bana in the role in the...more

A very well crafted love story. It sounds cheesy but it made me laugh and it made me cry...which for me is a rare thing in a book. I would say I defy any straight woman not to fall in love with the character of Henry by about 20 pages in but I know someone who hated all the characters and the book so clearly it is possible- as a side point why they've cast Eric Bana in the role in the movie is beyond me because he is totally not how I imagined the character. The main characters are beautiful complex human beings and even the minor characters are well developed- so much so that when many of them disappear for pages on end you find yourself still remembering them. For the first section of the book I was reminded in parts of A.S.Byatt's brilliant novel Possession and was highly amused when it was later quoted not once but twice. On a more trivial note, it had me from the outset as it is the fist time I've read a book with a main character called Clare who spelt her name correctly (i.e. the same way as I do).   hide