Time-Bent Inheritance Turns Family Mystery Into Heartache
Alba’s inheritance gives the story a moving emotional mechanism: time itself complicates love and family mystery. The power lies less in spectacle than ache, as chronology becomes another way of asking what we owe one another and what love survives.
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Time-Bent Inheritance Turns Family Mystery Into Heartache
Alba’s inheritance gives the story a moving emotional mechanism: time itself complicates love and family mystery. The power lies less in spectacle than ache, as chronology becomes another way of asking what we owe one another and what love survives.
- Book Synopsis
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The long-awaited sequel to the multi-million-copy bestseller The Time Traveler’s Wife.
Alba De Tamble is a time traveler, slipping unpredictably through decades like her father before her. But the hardest thing she carries isn’t the burden of futures she can’t understand, or pasts she cannot change – it’s a secret: she is in love with two different people.
Each of them offers a different life. Zach lives in the present and can’t follow her when she disappears. Oliver can travel through time, just like she can.
As Alba careens from time to time, moving from the riot-torn Chicago streets of her present to the eerie, timeless Yellow House, and into the digital corridors of the Museum of Lost Souls and a flooded future London, she must face a question she can no longer avoid: how is it possible to love, and live a meaningful life, in an increasingly troubled, fractured world?
Ideal for readers who:
- Return to the emotional universe of The Time Traveler’s Wife through Alba.
- Follow love, family and time as a new generation inherits an extraordinary legacy.
- Are drawn to romance, loss and unusual chronology.
- Prefer character-led speculative fiction where time bends around intimate relationships.
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781787336766
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, (27 October 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 560
- Weight
- 750 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 240 x 156 x 40 mm
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