Life Out of Order with Audrey Niffenegger
Thu 05 Nov 2026
7:00pm at Christ Church, Julian Rd, Bath BA1 2RH
Book + Ticket gives you 1 ticket with a copy of the book included, all tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, and author talk.
Other ways to book:
Email books@mrbsemporium.pro, call 01225 331155 or pop into the shop at 14-15 John Street, Bath. BA1 2JL.
We’re thrilled to welcome Audrey Niffenegger for a special event as we celebrate the release of her new novel, Life Out Of Order, the long-awaited sequel to her phenomenal debut, The Time Traveler’s Wife.
It’s been an incredible 23 years since the release of The Time Traveler’s Wife, the mind-bending and time-altering love story of Henry and Clare. Now Audrey returns, giving us the chance to follow the life of their daughter Alba and her two great loves – each in different timelines, of course! Both intimate and expansive, Life Out of Order is a kaleidoscopic story of love, resilience and hope when time is running out.
Audrey will be in conversation with writer and journalist Ella Risbridger, whose books span from cookery to poetry and essays, including Mr B’s team fave In Love with Love.
Please note: Audrey will not be doing an in-person signing at this event. All books will be pre-signed, and we are able to offer a DEDICATED copy (name only) for the FIRST 100 Book+Ticket orders – just let us know in your order who you would like the book to be dedicated to. All books will be available to collect at the event.
About the book:
Alba DeTamble is a time traveler, slipping unpredictably through decades like her father before her. But the hardest thing she carries isn’t the burden of futures she can’t understand, or pasts she cannot change – it’s a secret: she is in love with two different people.
Each of them offers a different life. Zach lives in the present and can’t follow her when she disappears. Oliver can travel through time, just like she can.
As Alba careens from time to time, moving from the riot-torn Chicago streets of her present to the eerie, timeless Yellow House, and into the digital corridors of the Museum of Lost Souls and a flooded future London, she must face a question she can no longer avoid: how is it possible to love, and live a meaningful life, in an increasingly troubled, fractured world?
‘Graceful… Satisfying… It takes on the biggest issues of our times without a flinch’ BONNIE GARMUS
‘Wonderfully enigmatic’ TRACY CHEVALIER
‘A marvel… Something I won’t stop thinking about’ CLAIRE DAVERLEY
About the authors:
Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects include a ballet, Raven Girl, in collaboration with Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet.
Ella Risbridger is a writer and journalist from London. With bylines in the Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Vogue & many others, her books span from cookery to picture books, poetry to essay collections. Her best-selling debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), won Cookbook of the Year at the Guild of Food Writers Awards, and was named a book of the year in multiple publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sunday Times, New York Times, Daily Mail and Washington Post. She was described by the Times as “the most talented writer of a generation”, which is nice. Ella is also the creator of You Get In Love And Then…?, a best-selling newsletter with thousands of paid subscribers; an amateur painter, potter, and candlestick maker; and the part-owner of one very fat orange cat.