Morning Book Club: "The Ministry of Time" by Kaliane Bradley
"In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the b…
Kaliane Bradley’s debut mashes up time travel, civil service bureaucracy, and a slow-burn romance in ways that have no business working as well as they do. The premise: a government ministry recruits “expats” pulled from different points in history to test whether time travel is survivable, and one civil servant is assigned to help a 19th-century soldier adjust to the present. It’s funny, sharp, and genuinely hard to put down.
The Morning Book Club meets Friday, June 5 from 10 to 11 a.m. in the Lower Level Meeting Room at the Morristown and Morris Township Library. It’s open to everyone, copies are held at the circulation desk, and you’re welcome even if you only made it halfway through. Questions? Email [email protected] with “Morning Book Club” in the subject line.