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A time travel romance, a speculative spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingeniously constructed exploration of the nature of truth and power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome toΒ 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 sheβll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering βexpatsβ from across history to establish whether time travel is feasibleβfor the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
She is tasked with working as a βbridgeβ: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as β1847β or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklinβs doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so heβs a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as βwashing machine,β βSpotify,β and βthe collapse of the British Empire.β But he adjusts quickly; he is, after all, an explorer by trade. Soon, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a seriously uncomfortable housemate dynamic, evolves into something much more. Over the course of an unprecedented year, Gore and the bridge fall haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences they never could have imagined.
Supported by a chaotic and charming cast of charactersβincluding a 17th-century cinephile who canβt get enough of Tinder, a painfully shy World War I captain, and a former spy with an ever-changing series of cosmetic surgery alterations and a belligerent attitude to HRβthe bridge will be forced to confront the past that shaped her choices, and the choices that will shape the future.
An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas,Β The Ministry of TimeΒ asks the universal question: What happens if you put a disaffected millennial and a Victorian polar explorer in a house together?
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