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Book Club - Ministry of Time

Wed, Feb 19

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Woman's Club of South Pasadena

Book Club  - Ministry of Time
Book Club  - Ministry of Time

Time & Location

Feb 19, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Woman's Club of South Pasadena, 1424 Fremont Ave, South Pasadena, CA 91030, USA

About the event

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel 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 body, but also for the fabric of space-time.


She is tasked with working as a “bridge”: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as “1847” or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her…



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