An Ocean of Minutes

How long would you wait for the one you love? The heartbreaking literary romance for fans of The Time Traveller's Wife.

In September 1981 Polly and Frank, a young couple from Buffalo, New York, arrive at the time travel terminal at Houston Intercontinental Airport in a quarantine taxi. One will travel, and one will stay.

As a flu pandemic sweeps 1980s America, the only means for many to pay for expensive lifesaving treatment is for a loved one to travel into the future as a Journeyman, a migrant worker for importation company TimeRaiser. When Frank succumbs, his girlfriend Polly signs up for a twelve-year bond to save his life. Frank promises to meet Polly on her arrival in Galveston, Texas in 1993. However, when Polly is rerouted and arrives five years late into an unfamiliar landscape ravaged by the epidemic, Frank is nowhere to be found.

Displaced and alone in a divided America, with no status and no money, Polly must find a way to locate Frank, to discover if he survived, and if their love has endured.

The Ocean of Minutes is a timely exploration of migration and the devastating love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.