Ever since I read it in 2007, I've regarded 'The Time Traveler's Wife' as one of my favourite books. The debut novel by Michigan-based writer Audrey Niffenegger, this unconventional love story centres on librarian Henry DeTamble, sufferer of a rare genetic disorder that causes him to involuntarily travel through time, and the unique relationship he develops with artist Clare Abshire.Clare first meets Henry when she is six years old and a thirty-six year old Henry is transported into her back garden. Somewhat confusingly, Henry’s first encounter with Clare isn’t until fourteen years later when she is twenty and he is twenty-eight. 'The Time Traveler's Wife' documents the evolution of their unusual relationship, skipping between Henry’s point of view and Clare’s, as readers see how Henry’s disorder, having originally thrown the pair together, repeatedly threatens to tear them apart.
A movie adaptation of the book is set to hit screens later this Summer, starring the consistently brilliant Rachel McAdams opposite Eric Bana. The trailer for the film has surfaced and, frankly, I don't know what to think. Yes, a large portion of the book is about the relationship between Clare and Henry but in the trailer they've made it look akin to Revolutionary Road, which it certainly is not. The book is quite dark and violent in places but they seem to have largely ignored these aspects in the trailer in favour of marketing it as a hybrid of 'The Notebook' and 'The Butterfly Effect' (one of my least favourite movies of all time):
