The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger

Wow. Lillie lent me this book when I asked her to reccommend me something to read, and now that I've read it I'm tempted to buy it for myself, because the story is so powerful and intriguing that it'll cling to me and I'll want to dip back into time and time again. The story is told to us by Clare and Henry, whose relationship is constantly buffeted by the sea of intense love and loss. Henry's got this genetic condition which causes him to time travel - he somehow gets dragged forward and backward to different points in his own lifetime, where he meets Clare, himself and other people in different times and places. It's a really beautiful and poignant tale, and it seems genuinely believable - not sci-fi at all - and is entirely unsentimental, which I appreciate. The Times describes it in three words: "wonky, sexy, incredible," and I agree.