(courtesy Hachette Australia)
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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. (courtesy Hachette Australia)
I love the extraordinarily diverse and imaginative books of Claire North.
They are one of the authors whose novels I buy automatically, confident that I will be gifted an enthrallingly complex but emotionally accessible story with characters who are not easily forgotten.
Their ability to be both epically sprawling and emotionally intimate all at once is endlessly impressive, and I have no doubt that will continue with their forthcoming book, As We Fall Through Time.
As a gay man, I also love the way every novel has some queer element to it; it’s exciting and pleasing to see you and so many others are represented in such widespread releases.
I can’t wait to read As We Fall Through Time when it releases on 13 October in Australia.