Someone lent me this book, and it sat on my shelf for ages until I had some time to read fiction. I took it with me to Madrid, and I was hooked.
It's the story of Henry, a man with a genetic chrono-impairment: he time travels, involuntarily. He might be at work and then, poof! he finds himself 20 years back. Sometimes he meets his younger (or older) self. Sometimes he gets into trouble. But most memorably, he meets with Clare, whom he first meets when she's 20 and he's 28, although the first time she meets him she's 6 and he's 36. Confused? It all makes sense when you read it.
It's a wonderful book, warm and funny and heartbreaking in places. It's the kind of novel I like - an interesting, unusual plot, with good but straightforward language (I hate flowery prose which is too much in love with itself), and then some.
Has anyone else read it?