Before the grieving Andrew can pull the trigger to end his misery, however, he is stopped by his dear cousin, Lord Charles Winslow. Because of Harrington’s cowardice, his beloved was murdered by notorious killer Jack the Ripper in that Year of Terror, 1888. In part the first, young lordling Harrington mourns the loss of his lover Marie Kelly, a common Whitechapel whore, eight years earlier. So begins The Map of Time, a gargantuan novel told in three parts. On this particular evening, the melancholy Andrew Harrington ruminates over which gun he should use to take his own life. The year is 1896, the place a dreary Victorian London. Why did I read this book: Consider: the gorgeous cover, to which an entire website is devoted in explanation of the different elements the glowing blurbs from every department at Atria, librarians, and international critics the promise of a time travel story featuring a fitting hero, H.G. How did I get this book: e-ARC via Galley Grab Mingling fictional characters with real ones, Palma weaves a historical fantasy as imaginative as it is exciting, a story full of love and adventure that also pays homage to the roots of science fiction while transporting its readers to a fascinating Victorian London for their own taste of time travel. Palma raises such questions in The Map of Time. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and thereby save the lives of an aristocrat in love with a murdered prostitute from the past of a woman bent on fleeing the strictures of Victorian society and of his very own wife, who may have become a pawn in a 4th-dimensional plot to murder the authors of Dracula, The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, in order to alter their identities and steal their fictional creations.īut, what happens if we change history? Felix J. Set in Victorian London with characters real and imagined, The Map of Time boasts a triple-play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H.G. Publication Date: June 2011 (US)/October 2008 (Spain) Genre: Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Historical, Victorian

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