The Time Traveller’s Wife

I really loved The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.  I am not a "time travel" genre aficionado at all – although I did also like Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series.

But this book is at heart a love story (but not a romance in the normal sense) – really well written and absorbing.  It draws you in so you completely suspend disbelief about the time travel angle.

I enjoyed this much more than "One Day" by David Nicholls.

It was enchanting, funny, warm, original and strangely believable.  It is over 500 pages but doesn't drag at any stage.

I have not seen the movie – and won't be trying to either.  I can't imagine how such a dazzling and complex (in terms of time lines) book could ever be turned into a good movie.

The author has recently released a second novel "Her Fearful Symmetry" which is a ghost story set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.  That description doesn't inspire me since the supernatural isn't my thing.  But I may just have to give it a go.