A Time travel romance, a speculative spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingeniously constructed exploration of the nature of truth and power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time , the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.
An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas, The Ministry of Time asks the universal question: What happens if you put a disaffected millennial and a Victorian polar explorer in a house together?.
Supported by a chaotic and charming cast of characters--including a 17th-century cinephile who can\'t get enough of Tinder, a painfully shy World War I captain, and a former spy with an ever-changing series of cosmetic surgery alterations and a belligerent attitude to HR--the bridge will be forced to confront the past that shaped her choices, and the choices that will shape the future.
Over the course of an unprecedented year, Gore and the bridge fall haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences they never could have imagined.
Soon, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a seriously uncomfortable housemate dynamic, evolves into something much more.
But he adjusts quickly; he is, after all, an explorer by trade.
As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin\'s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he\'s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as washing machine, Spotify, and the collapse of the British Empire.
She is tasked with working as a bridge living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as 1847 or Commander Graham Gore.
A recently established government Ministry is gathering expats from across history to establish whether Time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she\'ll be working on.
A Time travel romance, a speculative spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingeniously constructed exploration of the nature of truth and power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time , the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley
