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A 2024 literary highlight in the Sunday Times, BBC, Grazia, Dazed, Sunday Express, GQ, i-D, Stylist, Bookseller and Literary FrictionOutrageously brilliant ELEANOR CATTONMake room on your bookshelves for a new classic MAX PORTERThought-provoking and horribly clever ALICE WINNFunny, moving, original, intelligent, beautifully written NATHAN FILERElectric, charming, whimsical and strange EMILY HENRYWithin the first couple of pages I was gripped KATE MOSSEA 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.In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering expats from across history to test the limits of time-travel.Her role is to work as a bridge: living with, assisting and monitoring the expat known as 1847 - Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklins doomed expedition to the Arctic, so hes a little disoriented to find himself alive and surrounded by outlandish concepts such as washing machine, Spotify and the collapse of the British Empire. With an appetite for discovery and a seven-a-day cigarette habit, he soon adjusts; and during a long, sultry summer he and his bridge move from awkwardness to genuine friendship, to something more.But as the true shape of the project that brought them together begins to emerge, Gore and the bridge are forced to confront their past choices and imagined futures. Can love triumph over the structures and histories that have shaped them? And how do you defy history when history is living in your house
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