All We Have Is Time
A Novel
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Publisher Description
“Tender, lyrical, and brimming with the small moments that shape an impossibly long life. Tordoff is an author to watch.” —Shea Ernshaw, #1 New York Times bestselling author
A jaded immortal woman and a time traveler fall in love across the centuries, learning what it means to really live and love before their time together runs out. Perfect for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Ministry of Time.
1605, London. Beatrix lives a solitary life in the shadows, wandering the city streets looking for ways to forget. Forget that everyone she has ever loved has been dead for nearly a century. Forget that, for her, love can only ever mean loss. Because Beatrix has a secret: a lifetime ago her deathbed wish was granted, making her immortal.
Until one day, whilst picking pockets amidst the raucous crowds of The Globe Theatre, she meets Oliver. They spend a single, perfect day together before he tells her that he has to leave. She’s not surprised; eternity is a lonely place.
When Beatrix and Oliver meet again by chance a century later, recognition hits her like a bolt of lightning. It’s impossible. He’s impossible. Just like her. A chance for Beatrix to truly live—and love—again sparks into existence.
Woven between the biggest events in history and the quiet moments lost to it, from London in 1605 to Woodstock in 1969 and beyond, All We Have Is Time is an unforgettable love story for anyone who believes love can rewrite the rules of time.
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Torloff debuts with a poignant if slightly overwrought romantic fantasy pairing an immortal woman and a time-traveling man. In 1505, Beatrix, long suspected of being a changeling because her eyes are two different colors, is dying in childbirth—until a malignant faerie offers her the chance to live, a choice Beatrix soon regrets when she realizes she has been doomed to never die. It's a lonely existence until, in 1605, she encounters a strange man, Oliver, during a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Beatrix almost forgets the encounter, but then the pair meet again more than 100 years later and Oliver reveals that he's a dying time traveler from the 23rd century, able to visit the past for half a day at a time. Their romance builds slowly over centuries, with each of their encounters centered on one of Oliver's historical fascinations, and culminates in an emotional meeting at his Massachusetts home in 2202. Torloff piles colorful historical lore into each of the lovers' visits, but the plot itself feels somewhat belabored, and her characters, especially the unpleasant faerie and the hesitant Oliver, are somewhat underdeveloped. Still, it's a clever premise, and romance devotees are sure to savor the slow-burning, impossible love story at its core.
