The search for Frank and Aunt Donna feels frustrating and impossible. But Polly gets sent to 1998 instead, and the place they were to meet is no longer accessible. To save his life, Polly travels to the future to work for TimeRaiser, making arrangements with Frank about where and when to meet 12 years later, in 1993. They’re planning their future together when Frank catches the dreaded flu virus that’s going around. Premise: Polly and Frank are madly in love.
But how was Lim going to make her book stand out from other dystopian novels? I had high hopes for it, too, when I read that it involved time travel and a flu epidemic. I was so invested in the outcome, I couldn’t put it down. 'A profound meditation on the inhumanity of class and the limits of love.An Ocean of Minuteshad me in its grip. 'An Ocean Of Minutes absolutely swept me away'
'The clear-eyed, evocative writing here is reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, and anyone familiar with The Handmaid's Tale will find resonance in these pages. An original and compelling novel unlike anything you'll read this year' 'An Ocean of Minutes is that rare thing - a speculative novel that is as heartfelt as it is philosophical. Completely alone, Polly must navigate a terrifying new world to find him, and to discover if their love has endured.Ī heartbreaking and timely novel about courage, yearning, the cost of holding onto the past - and the price of letting it go. But when something goes wrong and Polly arrives late, Frank is nowhere to be found. And she must leave everything she loves behind, including Frank.Īll they have is the promise of a future together: they will find each other again in twelve years' time, in Galveston, Texas, where the sea begins. She can only go forward, she cannot go back. Polly can save him, but only if she agrees to a radical plan: to time travel to 1993 for a corporation who can fund his life-saving treatment. But one evening in 1980, as the Texas sun sets over their shoulders, the world is suddenly pulled apart by a deadly virus. Polly and Frank are young and in love, a lifetime together before them. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo When a deadly flu pandemic threatens America, Polly must risk it all to save the man she loves.
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