The Ministry of Time

I picked this up out of Erika's book stack; she was enjoying it so much. Our heroine is a run-of-the-mil young civil servant, who gets a new top secret job employed as a 'bridge' - a live-in companion to someone plucked out of time and dropped into modern day London. This is a fun conceit, and while maybe a little rom-commy (also: the tv show Beforeigners!) it gets a lot of mileage out of it.

You can tell this is a young writer, or someone who's really throwing everything they've got into a book. It's fun, but has weird tonal shifts, and inconsistently poetic language. And sheesh, I don't mind that kind of stuff! But really, I think I'd look forward to what Bradley's fourth novel looks like.

Noted on December 31, 2024