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The Ministry of Time

Von: Kaliane Bradley
Gesprochen von: George Weightman, Katie Leung
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The Time Traveller's Wife meets David Mitchell meets Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow meets Kate & Leopold in this debut novel from an award-winning writer.

There are several ways to tell a story.

A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever; England must fall.

A civil servant starts working as a 'bridge' - a liaison, helpmeet and housemate - in an experimental project that brings expatriates from the past into the twenty-first century. This is a science-fiction story.

In a London safehouse in the 2020s, a disorientated Victorian polar explorer chain smokes while listening to Spotify and learning about political correctness. This is a comedy.

During a long, sultry summer - as the shadows around them grow long and dangerous - two people fall in love, against all odds. This is a romance.

The Ministry of Time is a novel about Commander Graham Gore (R.N. c.1809-c.1847) and a woman known only as the bridge. As their relationship turns from the strictly professional into something more and uneasy truths begin to emerge, they are forced to face the reality of the project that brought them together.

Can love triumph over the structures and histories that shape them?

©2024 Kaliane Bradley (P)2024 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Belletristik Science Fiction Zeitreisen

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A delightfully audacious screwball comedy (Katie Goh, Fiction to be excited for in 2024)
Within the first couple of pages I was gripped. The novel is clever, witty and thought-provoking, asking the question of what any of us might do if we could engage live with people from the past. Kaliane Bradley is a wonderful writer and I can't wait to read what she does next (Kate Mosse, bestselling author of THE GHOST SHIP)
Holy smokes this novel is an absolute cut above! Kaliane Bradley leaps into a storytelling league of her own. This book is a deadly serious speculative fiction but it is also one of the funniest books I've read in years. It is exciting, surprising, intellectually provocative, weird, radical, tender and moving. I missed it when I was away from it. I will hurry to re-read it. Make room on your bookshelves for a new classic. (Max Porter, bestselling author of SHY)
Smart and affecting, full of ideas plus that slow-burning love story, it's a wonderful debut (David Nicholls, author of YOU ARE HERE)
An outrageously brilliant debut with a premise that just gets more and more original. The Ministry of Time pulls off the neatest trick of speculative fiction, first estranging us from our own era, and then facilitating our immigration back into the present; but it is also a love story, exploratory, sensitive, charged with possibility, and powered by desire, reminding us that history is synonymous with human beings, and that we all have the ability to change it. This is already the best new book I will have read next year (Eleanor Catton, author of BIRNAM WOOD)
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This was awesome! Even though it was slow paced at points the story never lost me.

One of my favourite books of the year

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This book is several things in one: a love story (quite explicit at times), a time-travel story that confronts travelers from other periods with our current one and also a moral tale. The later involves questions about past and future, ideals and prejudices, bureaucracies and individual freedoms and much more.
Overall this is a gripping tale and very good food of thought. This audio version is an especially well-made performance that I can highly recommend. Katie Leung is just brilliant and the introductions to the chapters by the male voice give the whole story additional depth.

Highly recommendable travels through time and love

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It’s written in a beautiful and witty language, with some interesting plot twists. It’s a mix of romance, fantasy and spy novel in one.

Great read

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Ah, the perfect cocktail for a literary good time. I must say, I relished this romp through temporal and romantic shenanigans, even if the author's writing sometimes took detours into the realm of silliness. The book's premise was delightfully bonkers, and while the twist was about as surprising as British summer rain, it didn't dampen my spirits.

And let's give a standing ovation to our heroine, who seems to be so shamelessly modeled after the author herself. Kudos, madam.

However, the narration was about as exhilarating as a Sunday sermon. If monotone was the goal, consider it an absolute triumph.

Everything all at once

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Honestly I could never get into this narration, too fast pace, almost made me anxious at a times.

Bad narration

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I tried, l liked the idea, the characters but in the end it was boring ..

I didn’t get it

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In the first 1/3 of the audio book the narration is too slow, in the second third it's too quick, only the last third is done well, but by then you've lost too much from the story unless you're super focused... The story itself has a good premise, but the execution is also questionable at times.

Bad editing of the audio

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