The Ministry of Time
Been a long-standing bookstore recommendation. No, I mean, one of those that had “Staff Recommendation “ done in handwriting. Something, too, about it being a “notable for 2024.” Or similar suggestions.
The frame is that the English government figured out time travel, and brought a couple of soon-to-be-deceased individuals forward to mostly current conditions. The frame belies the delicate interplay between characters, and the immigrant status of both the time travelers and the home-workers.
Still, as much as anything, I begin to think of it as a comedy of manners, as only the English can do.
When something changes you constitutionally, you say: “The earth moved.” But the earth stays the same. It’s your relationship with the ground that shifts. Page 211.
Bittersweet. Not mentioned but it’s the ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail, time travel mysteries.
