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The Time Traveler's Wife Audiobook— narrated by Fred Berman and Phoebe Strole
Audrey Niffenegger's debut gives Henry a genetic disorder that flings him uncontrollably through his own timeline, and Clare the impossible task of loving a man who keeps vanishing. A swooning, inventive, deeply romantic time-travel love story.
Why the audiobook wins
Henry and Clare take turns narrating their own love story, and giving the audiobook two voices, Fred Berman and Phoebe Strole, is the right call for a novel whose entire structure runs on the gap between what each of them knows at any given moment. Berman carries Henry's disorientation, always arriving mid-scene, never sure which year he's landed in, while Strole gives Clare the steadier, more patient half of the marriage, the one who has to wait.
That scrambled chronology, Clare meeting Henry for the first time when she's six and he's a stranger, then again when she's twenty and he's meeting her for the first time, is disorienting on the page and clarifies beautifully with two distinct voices to track. It's an ideal listen for anyone who wants a love story with real structural ambition, not just sentiment.
The premise has been imitated for two decades because it works this well. One Audible credit gets you both sides of it.
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- Who narrates the The Time Traveler's Wife audiobook?
- Fred Berman and Phoebe Strole narrate the audiobook edition of The Time Traveler's Wife.
- Is the The Time Traveler's Wife audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored The Time Traveler's Wife 4.5 out of 5. Henry and Clare take turns narrating their own love story, and giving the audiobook two voices, Fred Berman and Phoebe Strole, is the right call for a novel whose entire structure runs on the gap between what each of them knows at any given moment. Berman carries Henry's…
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