As We Fall Through Time - Claire North

As We Fall Through Time - Claire North

Claire North

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Published 13 October 2026

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  • Pages · 416 pages
  • Publication Date · 13/10/2026
  • Genre · Romance
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WONDERFUL - A PROFOUND ACCOMPLISHMENT' Max Gladstone'AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE' Adrian Tchaikovsky'ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR' Kate QuinnFrom the multi-award-winning Claire North comes an extraordinary and epic tale of time travel, betrayal and a love that echoes through the centuries. In the beginning, the world will end. This is the story of what happens next. When Cal meets a soldier of the French Revolution, he knows his lover is destined to die. But what is the point of being a time traveller if you can't make a few small tweaks to the course of history? A little paradox here, an alteration there - nothing Cal can't fix, to save the man he loves. When Fadimatu walks into a museum in 2018, she stumbles upon her own mummified corpse, setting her on the path to a betrayal that has already killed her, and a murder that has not yet come to pass. And when a sudden rupture in the fabric of history rips through the lives these travellers have built, breaking both past and future, they must reckon with death foretold, love forsaken, and a secret that will shatter time itself. Fall through history on a thrilling journey of shattered time, broken futures and a love that can never be erased. 'A wonderful book . . .It's a rare treat to read a novel with such scope and depth. A profound accomplishment. I loved it' Max Gladstone, co-author of This is How You Lose the Time War'Absolutely, impossibly brilliant: at once epic and intimate, emotionally devastating and intellectually dazzling . . . I can't imagine reading a better book this year' H. G. Parry, author of The Magician's Daughter'Casually brilliant, flippantly funny, deeply philosophical, and achingly tender, As We Fall Through Time is one of the best books of the year' Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network'An absolute masterpiece of a book: ingenious, touching, sharp-edged. North is one of the imaginative greats' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time'Poignant, propulsive and glorious' M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts'North's talent shines out' Sunday Times'Claire North goes from strength to strength' Guardian

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