In the near future, Britain has gained the power of time travel and brings a number of people close to their deaths in the past to the present, hoping to use them to study the effects of time travel and to see how well they can assimilate to their new time period.  Each one is assigned a bridge, a Ministry employee who lives with them and helps them adjust to the 21st century, answering questions along the way.  Things go sideways when a duo from the future try to kill one of the bridges and her charge.  Can they save themselves without disrupting the timeline?

Kaliane Bradley’s debut novel, The Ministry of Time, was the winner of the 2024 Goodreads Choice award for favorite science fiction while being nominated for favorite debut novel.  It poses some interesting moral questions should time travel ever become a reasonable concern wrapped around a convincing romance between the main character and her charge, the real-life Commander Graham Gore.  I look forward to reading more from her in the future.  Or the past.