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Discover First: Get one of 100 copies of The Time Traveler's Wife reissue – and one of 25 copies of Life Out of Order before it hits bookshops

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Discover First: Life Out of Order by Audrey Niffenegger

100 readers will be selected receive the new reissue of The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, with 25 lucky readers also receiving a copy of the sequel, Life Out of Order, before it's out in October.

Henry and Clare meet, fall in love, and build a life together. Just not in that order.

Henry is a dashing, adventurous librarian who travels helplessly through time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his own past and future. Clare is an artist whose life moves forwards like the rest of us, one day to the next.

As they try to anchor their passionate affair in the here and now, Henry's constant disappearances and sudden arrivals leave Clare realising there can be nothing normal about their relationship. But what they build instead is one of the most intensely moving and enduring love stories of our time.

The Time Traveler's Wife is the international bestselling novel of a time-altering love.

'A graceful, complicated, satisfying metafiction, it takes on the biggest issues of our times without a flinch' Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry

'Can a novel be both intimate and epic? Utopian and dystopian? Old fashioned in the best way and utterly contemporary? In the case of Life Out of Order, the answer is yes, yes, yes' Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in the Field

Read the first chapter of The Time Traveler's Wife


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Why we chose this book

'The Time Traveler's Wife is a modern classic: exhilarating, heartbreaking, and life-affirming all at once. We know fans will love this new edition… and new readers will love experiencing this epic love story for the first time. Plus, Niffenegger's electrifying sequel is set to deliver a whirlwind time-travel adventure for a whole new generation. You won't want to miss it!'

Amaya, National Book Tokens

What Audrey loves about local bookshops

'In my next life I'd like to come back as a bookshop. It will be delightful to be a place where people spend so many pleasurable hours finding new favourite books – a calm, comfortable, quiet place where people are happy. As a bookshop, I know I will be useful and blissful.'

Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life Out of Order

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