"Oh wow! This unique and creative novel leads to the most immersive and intimate yet blisteringly epic story of the highs and lows of a traveller through time. "
Absolutely, completely, and utterly glorious! Time travel has never been so believable or addictive. Knowing the world will come to end, seeing your own corpse, and trying to prevent a potentially catastrophic rupture in history, are all part and parcel of being a traveller through time.
Award-winning author Claire North is beautifully creative and eloquent. Look back over her novels recommended by the LoveReading team and you will see four different editorial experts singing her praises. Her last novel, Slow Gods, was brilliantly original and epic in construction as a super nova event wiped out planets and civilisations.
Here we are with As We Fall Through Time and I can declare it is my favourite of them all. I was caught hook line and sinker, and sat in wonderment as I read. Even though it spins through time I was a part of each and every moment. The sense of place is just immense and I felt as though I knew each location intimately. The characters are fascinating, their choices telling, and each individual second matters.
This will be one of my favourite novels of the year, so it just had to join our LoveReading Star Books, and I’ve chosen it as a Liz Pick of the Month. As We Fall Through Time deserves to fly, it is a truly wonderful read and I can recommend it with my heart and soul.
'Absolutely, impossibly brilliant: at once epic and intimate, emotionally devastating and intellectually dazzling . . . I can't imagine reading a better book this year' H. G. Parry, author ofThe Magician's DaughterFrom the multi-award-winning Claire North comes an extraordinary and epic tale of time travel, betrayal and a love that echoes through the centuries.In the beginning, the world will end. This is the story of what happens next.When Cal meets a soldier of the French Revolution, he knows his lover is destined to die. But what is the point of being a time traveller if you can't make a few small tweaks to the course of history? A little paradox here, an alteration there - nothing Cal can't fix, to save the man he loves.When Fadimatu walks into a museum in 2018, she stumbles upon her own mummified corpse, setting her on the path to a betrayal that has already killed her, and a murder that has not yet come to pass.And when a sudden rupture in the fabric of history rips through the lives these travellers have built, breaking both past and future, they must reckon with death foretold, love forsaken, and a secret that will shatter time itself.Fall through history on a thrilling journey of shattered time, broken futures and a love that can never be erased.'Casually brilliant, flippantly funny, deeply philosophical, and achingly tender, As We Fall Through Time is one of the best books of the year' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'An absolute masterpiece of a book: ingenious, touching, sharp-edged. North is one of the imaginative greats' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time'Poignant, propulsive and glorious' M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts'North's talent shines out' Sunday Times'Claire North goes from strength to strength' Guardian
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Science fiction: space opera |
'Absolutely, impossibly brilliant: at once epic and intimate, emotionally devastating and intellectually dazzling . . . I can't imagine reading a better book this year' H.
As We Fall Through Time features in the following genres: Science fiction: space opera
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As We Fall Through Time was written by Claire North and published by Orbit an imprint of Little, Brown
As We Fall Through Time has 416 pages