Time Traveler’s Wife: Still One of The Best in Modern Fiction?
It’s been seven years since Audrey Niffenegger first published The Time Traveler’s Wife, netting the author a staggering $100k in an auction for the manuscript despite having it being rejected a near countless number times previously. When copies subsequently hit the shelves, they didn’t stay there for long (helped in part by a recommendation in Richard and Judy’s book club, after which the book sold over 40,000 copies in a single week).
Sales figures are all well and good, but did the book deserve such high acclaim?
Undoubtedly. The film might have been poorly handled, but the book itself is full of texture and a carefully woven plot and two of the most believable protagonists we’ve ever seen in such an unrealistic circumstance.
Many cast off the novel as cheap chick literature - I can honestly say that, as a male, I’ve not enjoyed a book this much since… goodness knows when. Forget Henry, I completely fell in love with Clare Abshire and her life, and I’m not embarrassed to say that I felt more than a little bit broody when [insert massive spoiler here] and she is left holding baby bottles and pram.
Many other reviewers agreed at the time and the range of emotions Niffenegger expertly guides her readers through is nothing short of astounding. It’s very little wonder that publishers were quick to offer her a gigantic $5m advance on her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, undoubtedly one of the biggest publishing deals to occur in modern times.
Unfortunately, that second novel wasn’t really that good. Oh well.
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