The Time Traveler’s Wife: a ‘problematic’ adaptation of the hit novel

Book was made into a 2009 film – and now Apple TV+ has had a go

Theo James and Rose Leslie
Theo James and Rose Leslie in The Time Traveler’s Wife
(Image credit: HBO/Apple TV+)

Audrey Niffenegger’s debut novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife, has sold so many copies since its publication in 2003 that “most people know the basics” of the plot already, said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian. In case you don’t, it revolves around a librarian called Henry, who has a rare genetic disorder that causes him to travel through time, landing him “dazed and naked wherever the cosmos takes him”.

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