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Written by Audrey Niffenegger - Performed by Maggi-Meg Reed & Christopher Burns - Abridged Fiction - 10 COMPACT DISCS - 12 hours

Publisher, HighBridge Audio (September 2003)

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Praise for the audio edition:

"Fiercely inventive, slyly ambitious, and lovingly told, The Time Traveler's Wife sparkles as it fearlessly explores the delicate interplay of love and time. This novel is a joy." --ANNE URSU, author of The Disapparation of James and Spilling Clarence

"The Time Traveler's Wife is an odd and enchanting love story. It is a story of intense devotion filtered through time.” --CHARLES DICKINSON author of A Shortcut in Time

"Reed and Burns become Clare and Henry in wonderful, realistic and unforgettable ways as the narration alternates between their points of view. Reed is convincing in expressing Clare's frustration with their unusual lifestyle, never knowing when Henry will disappear or reappear. Burns is outstanding in portraying Henry's fear of never knowing where or when he'll turn up. . . . Niffenegger's first novel combines elements of science fiction in a touching love story with well-crafted, amusing and extremely likable characters." —Kliatt

When Henry's genetic clock periodically resets itself, he turns up in his past or in his future. A victim of the rare Chrono-Displacement Disorder, Henry wants only to live a normal life. Instead, he must cope with spontaneous, unpredictable leaps into other times and places: "Sometimes it feels as though your attention has wandered for just an instant. Then, with a start, you realize . . . you've mis-located yourself again." His wife, Clare, must cope with his unpredictable and bewildering disappearances.

In her innovative debut novel, Audrey Niffeneger explores the perfect marriage, one that is tested by challenges the couple can neither control nor predict. An imaginative extension of everyday life, the story asks: What if two people who loved each other deeply, married, and faced a life in which one person remained constant while the other slipped fluidly in and out of time? A modern love story with a twist that invites us to linger over questions of how life and love change over time.

About the Author: Audrey Niffenegger is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Books Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, where she teaches writing, letterpress printing, and fine edition book productions. A visual artists, she shows her artwork at Printworks Gallery in Chicago. The Time Traveler's Wife is her first novel.