Author: Bradley, Kaliane

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 27 March 2025 by Hodder & Stoughton (Sceptre) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 368 pages
128 x 197 x 27 | 320g

? The sensational Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller ?

? Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and a finalist for a Hugo Award ?’The hit of the year’GuardianA civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering ‘expats’ from across history to test whether time-travel is feasible. Her role is to work as a ‘bridge’: living with, supporting and monitoring expat ‘1847’ – Commander Graham Gore, a former Victorian polar explorer. Gore, an adventurer by trade, soon adjusts to this bizarre new world of washing machines, feminism and Spotify; and during a long, sultry summer the pair move from awkwardness to friends