The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

I had been recommended Audrey Niffenegger's debut novel by a number of people, so was really looking forward to reading it. I was not disappointed. The story is fast paced, set around time travelling Henry (this happens through a genetic chromosome disorder) and how he struggles to maintain a normal life whilst disappearing all the time to different points in his past and future and also his wife Clare's past, who he first knows when she is a child and he was in his mid-thirties (although they don't meet in real time until she is 20 and he 28).

The story is told by both of them, he as he time travels, and she in real time. It is very cleverly done and all ties up beautifully. The amount of notes Niffenegger must have made to remember where Henry is, was and will be going to at any given time must be very impressive. The book takes some concentration, to note that dates and ages of the two characters and get used to it jumping time periods, especially in the beginning, but it is definitely worth the effort. This is not a sci-fi type book, nor an out and out romance, but a book about a couple trying to live a normal life in the face of a unique and fascinating adversity.