Time Squared
Lesley Krueger
-- Critic Kerry Clare.
Robin and Eleanor meet in 1811 at the British estate of Eleanor’s rich aunt Clara. Robin is about to leave to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, and Aunt Clara rules out a marriage between her niece and the handsome young soldier.
Everyone Eleanor knows, including Robin, believe they’ve always lived in the early 19th century, in the Regency era that Jane Austen so vividly portrayed.
Yet in this time-jumping, genre-bending literary novel, Eleanor keeps finding herself in different times, living lives that are both similar and different to the life she lived in Regency England. Whether she wakes up in 1811 or 1941, she always lives with her aunt, she's invariably accompanied by her best friend Catherine, and her evolving romance with Robin leaves her both tense and joyful as he fights in yet another war.
Meanwhile, carriages change to trains, the telegraph arrives, bicycles come into vogue, then motorcars, and suddenly Robin is fighting in the First World War -- all as Eleanor remains in her early twenties a century after her love affair with Robin began.
No one but Eleanor notices the time jumps, and she struggles on her own to figure out what’s going on. Is she feverish? Hallucinating? Or is it all a dream? Only when she reaches the 21st century does Eleanor understand that she and Robin are being manipulated through time.
Who is doing this, and why? Breaking down, desperate, Eleanor sets off to confront the ones she discovers are behind this — chessmasters who are playing her like a pawn. Eleanor’s goal? To free herself to live out her life on her own terms, with Robin by her side.
Neither sci fi nor romance, but a critically-acclaimed literary mash-up, Time Squared examines the roles women are forced to play in different centuries, the power they’re allowed, the stresses they face — and what this does to their relationships. Shakespeare famously wrote, "Love alters not when it alteration finds."
Or does it?
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