The
Timer Traveler’s Wife is a romantic science-fiction story about the strange
relationship between a time traveler and his wife. The male protagonist, Henry
DeTamble, has a genetic disorder that forces him to travel through time (both
to the past and the future) involuntarily. He meets Clare Abshire when she is
six and he, thirty-six. The novel explores certain themes regarding a relationship from the crux of what love is and could be, to the elusive idea of fate.
