{"product_id":"9780008768584","title":"Time\/Life: Don’t miss the brand new gripping and moving novel full of love and hope for 2025!","description":"\u003ch2\u003e'Intriguing, enchanting, soulful … A book of timeless beauty' Elif Shafak\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eIncludes an 'In Conversation' with the author and Sandi Toksvig.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnstage at a Las Vegas convention, Elo Ó hAllmhuráin, a worldfamous tech magnate, demonstrates a time machine, catapulting himself and journalist Dory Silver into the distant future. Stranded and desperate to get home to her dying partner, Dory is forced to re-examine the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003eTime\/Life is a love letter to science fiction rooted in a very real present of rising populism and the unintended consequences of technology. Above all, it is a powerful meditation on the nature of love itself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* * * *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Multiplexly brilliant, intricately fascinating, harrowingly emotional fiction, sprung from this century’s first and possibly final quarter' William Gibson, author of \u003cem\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Mayer’s reimagining of H.G. Wells’ Time Machine is a profoundly moving exploration of loss and love. Time\/Life delivers a wild blend of unreality with chilling elements that are all too real' \u003cstrong\u003eBee Rowlatt, author of \u003cem\u003eIn Search of Mary\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOne Woman Crime Wave\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Mayer’s genre-bending riff on H.G. Wells is as clever as it is poignant. A dark and sharply contemporary pleasure' \u003cstrong\u003eLuke Jennings, author of the \u003cem\u003eVillanelle\u003c\/em\u003e series (the basis for \u003cem\u003eKilling Eve\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Catherine Mayer’s unique and prescient Time\/Life playfully repurposes H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine for the post-truth generation, creating and recreating worlds like a computer game. Yet it is also a devastating meditation on grief and the ephemeral quality of time. It might make you cry but it will also make you laugh' \u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Fremantle, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eQueen’s Gambit\u003c\/em\u003e (made into the movie \u003cem\u003eFirebrand\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* * * *\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n          \u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Catherine Mayer \u003c\/strong\u003e\n        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful, incredibly moving and unexpectedly comforting' \u003cstrong\u003eMarian Keyes \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Breathtaking, heartbreaking and also full of love and hope, what a journey this book takes us on – with love, time travel and a toxic tech magnate’ \u003cstrong\u003eSandi Toksvig\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMayer's latest novel is a masterful blend of realism and magical elements, offering a captivating story that explores the complexities of family relationships, the concept of time, and the profound impact of technology on our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Richard Coles (Murder Under the Mistletoe)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarperCollins 2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catherine Mayer, Read by Annie Aldington, With Catherine Mayer and Sandi Toksvig","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46888984248469,"sku":"9780008768584","price":45.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780008768584.jpg?v=1776888519","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780008768584","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}