Or so it seems.Īnd just when things really get weird or when people start getting intimate, the author calmingly inserts himself to explain a few things, point something out that the characters may not know (yet) or even to give them a bit of privacy. People are not telling the truth, real historical figures rub elbows with imagined ones, and with the possibility of time travel nothing is sacred.

Not much is exactly as it seems in this novel. Another impossible love, separated by more than 100 years and with unforeseeable consequences should one of them attempt to stay with the other. When she and her cousin goes on one of Murray’s time travels to the year 2000, she falls in love with the handsome captain leading the human charge, Derek Shackleton. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty is quickly making herself impossible, refusing to bow down to her parents’ expectations about how it is proper for a young lady to behave. Because guess what he has stashed away in the attic?

So the cousins visit this man, Gilliam Murray, to make him help them go back in time.īut time traveling is not all that easy so Murray encourages them to enlist the help of the one man responsible for putting the idea of time traveling and dreams of the future in to the minds of everyone, the author of The Time Machine, H.G. A man has opened a business in the middle of London where he offers the possibility to travel to the year 2000 and see the final battle between the humans and the automatons. However, his cousin intervenes, claiming that it will be possible for Andrew to travel back in time and save Marie by killing Jack the Ripper.īecause time travel is possible. Andrew is thrown into huge depths of despair which after 8 long years causes him to want to kill himself. Like for instance Andrew Harrington who is madly in love with Marie Kelly – who is then murdered by Jack the Ripper. In a novel split into three separate but intertwined story lines, we meet a young man and a young woman having troubled love life in ways, that are not so easily remedied.

The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma