I have been a huge fan of Kelly Link's short stories for years, so I was very excited about the idea of her writing a novel. The Book of Love did not disappoint. The characters were all richly developed, and their relationships with each other were so engaging. I really got lost in the fates of these fictional strangers in this little seaside town, and worried what would happen to them when the gods come calling. Beautiful book. Amazing writer.
'A dizzying dream ride you will never forget' LEIGH BARDUGO
'An astonishing, gorgeous novel' HOLLY BLACK
'An incredible achievement' CASSANDRA CLARE
FROM PULITZER-PRIZE FINALIST KELLY LINK
Supernatural beings and chaos descend on the small seaside town of Lovesend, Massachusetts, in the wake of the unexpected return of three missing teenagers.
Laura, Daniel and Mo disappeared without trace a year ago. They have long been presumed dead. Which they were. But now they are not. And it is up to the resurrected teenagers to discover what happened to them.
Revived by Mr Anabin - the man they knew as their high…
North Woods tells the story of a specific place: a cabin in Massachusetts that was first built by a young couple fleeing their Puritan village. The novel starts with their story, and then moves us through all the people, and some of the other inhabitants, of the cabin and the woods around it over time. Mason speaks to our connection to nature, our environments, and other people through the stories and experiences that occur in this one little corner of the world. Absolutely loved this book.
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
“With the expansiveness and immersive feeling of two-time Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell’s fiction (Cloud Atlas), the wicked creepiness of Edgar Allan Poe, and Mason’s bone-deep knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world that’s on par with that of Thoreau, North Woods fires on all cylinders.”—San Francisco Chronicle
The Ministry of Time is an entity whose job it is to help "expats", that is people who have time-traveled from different times to the present, adjust to the modern world. The Ministry is hoping to find out if time travel is safe for both the body and the mind, and these expats they have stolen out of their own times are the guinea pigs for their research. But the Ministry is not the only group using the technology, and the expats may be in more danger than they think. I fell in love with the characters, especially the expats, who were funny and smart and whose assimilation into the modern world took some unexpected turns. This novel was exciting and it made me think, not only about time travel, but about the ethics of scientific discovery and all the unintended consequences that can come from something new.
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
"Do not ignore a call from me when you know I am feeling neurotic about a boy. That is Best Friend 101." - Nash. Maggie and Nash are outsiders. She's overweight. He's out of the closet. The best of friends, they have seen each other through thick and thin, but when Tom moves to town at the start of the school year, they have something unexpected in common: feelings for the same guy.
