“We wake up to tomorrow, never yesterday.”

This book is described as a breathless page-turner, and a love letter to our planet. It is both of these things, and everything between them too, and so much more. It offers a vision of the future that demands we must reckon with what we owe to one another, and to earth itself, and Chloe Benjamin delivers this reckoning in the most beautiful exploration of speculative fiction that I’ve ever read.

If you love time-travel written well, this is the book for you. If you are new to reading this sort of book then this is also the book for you. Somehow, Chloe Benjamin has crafted a book that has plenty of accessible science whilst not being patronising, she writes time-travel at an intense level of complexity but equally never overwhelming.

This book is Jodi Picoult meets Audrey Niffenegger meets Liane Moriarty with a good healthy dose of something completely unique, utterly beautiful and all Chloe Benjamin.

About the Book

What if tomorrow was already written, but yesterday was yours to change? 

At an isolated research station in Antarctica, biologist Laurel Salter washes dishes for a living ten hours a day, six days a week. She tells no one why she left her career, or why her marriage ended.

But even in this remote outpost, Laurel can’t outrun her past. When a strange light appears across the ice and draws a group of physicists to McMurdo, her former husband, Eli, won’t be far behind.

Laurel is captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow; the way it seems almost alive. And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole, and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything to fix the burden that hangs between them – to turn back the clock and live their story a second time?

And this time, live it differently.

About The Author

Chloe Benjamin is the author of The New York Times bestseller The Immortalists, and The Anatomy of Dreams. The Immortalists was a Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly and NPR Best Book of 2018. Her work has been translated into 30 languages. She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay area.

Photo Credit: David Enloe

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