A time travel romance a speculative spy thriller a workplace comedy and an ingeniously constructed exploration of the nature of truth and power and the potential for love to change it all In the near future a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is shortly afterward told what project shell 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 Franklins doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic so hes a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves surrounded by outlandish concepts such as washing machine Spotify and the collapse of the British Empire. But he adjusts quickly; he is after all an explorer by trade. Soon what the bridge initially thought would be at best a seriously uncomfortable housemate dynamic evolves into something much more. Over the course of an unprecedented year Gore and the bridge fall haphazardly fervently in love with consequences they never could have imagined. Supported by a chaotic and charming cast of characters--including a seventeenth-century cinephile who cant get enough of Tinder a painfully shy World War I captain and a former spy with an ever-changing series of cosmetic surgery alterations and a belligerent attitude to HR--the bridge will be forced to confront the past that shaped her choices--and the choices that will shape the future. An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas The Ministry of Time asks the universal question: What happens if you put a disaffected millennial and a Victorian polar explorer in a house together?
