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'WONDERFUL - A PROFOUND ACCOMPLISHMENT' Max Gladstone
'AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE' Adrian Tchaikovsky
'ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR' Kate Quinn

From the multi-award-winning Claire North comes an extraordinary and epic tale of time travel, betrayal and a love that echoes through the centuries.

In the beginning, the world will end. This is the story of what happens next.

When Cal meets a soldier of the French Revolution, he knows his lover is destined to die. But what is the point of being a time traveller if you can't make a few small tweaks to the course of history? A little paradox here, an alteration there - nothing Cal can't fix, to save the man he loves.

When Fadimatu walks into a museum in 2018, she stumbles upon her own mummified corpse, setting her on the path to a betrayal that has already killed her, and a murder that has not yet come to pass.

And when a sudden rupture in the fabric of history rips through the lives these travellers have built, breaking both past and future, they must reckon with death foretold, love forsaken, and a secret that will shatter time itself.

Fall through history on a thrilling journey of shattered time, broken futures and a love that can never be erased.

'A wonderful book . . .It's a rare treat to read a novel with such scope and depth. A profound accomplishment. I loved it' Max Gladstone, co-author of This is How You Lose the Time War

'Absolutely, impossibly brilliant: at once epic and intimate, emotionally devastating and intellectually dazzling . . . I can't imagine reading a better book this year' H. G. Parry, author of The Magician's Daughter

'Casually brilliant, flippantly funny, deeply philosophical, and achingly tender, As We Fall Through Time is one of the best books of the year' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network

'An absolute masterpiece of a book: ingenious, touching, sharp-edged. North is one of the imaginative greats' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time

'Poignant, propulsive and glorious' M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts

'North's talent shines out' Sunday Times

'Claire North goes from strength to strength' Guardian

Critics Review

An absolute masterpiece of a book: ingenious, touching, sharp-edged. North is one of the imaginative greats
Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of CHILDREN OF TIME
A wonderful book, loving, lush, and weird, rich with heartache and horror and grace. It's a rare treat to read a novel with such scope and depth. A profound accomplishment. I loved it
Max Gladstone, co-author of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR
As We Fall Through Time is absolutely, impossibly brilliant: at once epic and intimate, emotionally devastating and intellectually dazzling, everything I love about time travel novels and like nothing I've ever read before. I can't imagine reading a better book this year
H.G. Parry, author of THE MAGICIAN'S DAUGHTER
Claire North always breaks my brain in the best way possible. Their latest is an utter delight, introducing us to Cal, a gender-bending time traveller who hops centuries with ease, and Olivier, an honour-bound army officer on the cusp of the French Revolution. What begins as a simple love affair becomes a devotion that crosses millennia, invokes a deadly paradox that threatens the entire construct of reality, and draws the attention of a mysterious witch from the cracks of time itself. Casually brilliant, flippantly funny, deeply philosophical, and achingly tender, As We Fall Through Time is one of the best books of the year
Kate Quinn, author of THE ALICE NETWORK
Claire North dismantles the time-travel saga and rebuilds it as something poignant, propulsive and glorious
M. R. Carey, author of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS
Cal, a time traveller from a future where mankind faces extinction of our own making, discovers that other time travellers and the man he loves have disappeared. As We Fall Through Time hurtles along at a relentless pace, snapping back and forth through centuries as Cal tries to locate the origins of the time paradox someone created while trying to save humanity's future. Claire North's unparalleled imagination delivers again in this sharply intelligent, mind-bending story filled with plot twists and revelations, incisive commentary on our own era, questions of morality - and love
Janie Chang, bestselling author of THE FOURTH PRINCESS, THE PORCELAIN MOON, THE LIBRARY OF LEGENDS
North charts a path across time as lyrical and deep and frightening as any winding river in creation. The conventions and logics of the time travel plot are twisted and repurposed, and what you get is an exquisite combination of heartbreak and hilarity, cozy comfort and nightmare thrills. A magnificent read!
Bethany Jacobs, Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of THESE BURNING STARS
I loved this book and all its layers. Twisting and turning with a serpent's grace, As We Fall Through Time explores the pleasures, perils and paradoxes of time travel with huge intelligence, compassion and wit. The travellers face dilemmas that are both global and intimate, pressing and timeless. In this tour de force novel, Claire North reminds us - convinces us - that our survival can only come through connection, no matter how unlikely and fraught
Antonia Hodgson, author of THE RAVEN SCHOLAR
A furious and passionate book, sweeping through an epic scale of history with the fierce drive to find something we can do better, but still intimate and hopeful when it comes to the people who live in the world as it is. Brilliant and memorable
Everina Maxwell, SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of WINTER'S ORBIT
Author Claire North
Duration 10 hours
Release Date
ISBN 9781405563956
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Science fiction: space opera
Availability AU, GB, IE

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