The Infinite
Patience Agbabi
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The Infinite is a mind-bending, time-twisting adventure for readers who loved Time Travelling with a Hamster and A Wrinkle in Time. The first book in The Leap Cycle series
‘Vivid, funny, exciting and inventive’ Philip Pullman
‘Has a magic all of its own’ Bernardine Evaristo
‘What an inspiration. The future just got so much better’ Benjamin Zephaniah
FIGHT CRIME, ACROSS TIME!
Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift – the ability to leap through time. Elle Bíbi-Imbelé Ifíè has The Gift, but she’s never used it. Until now.
On her twelfth birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from the future. Other Leaplings are disappearing in time – and not everyone at the centre can be trusted.
Soon Elle’s adventure becomes more than a race through time. It’s a race against time. She must fight to save the world as she knows it – before it ceases to exist …
“The Infinite is vivid, funny, exciting and inventive. But there are books that are all those things and still don’t work. This works brilliantly, and the characters are so delightful that I don’t think anyone could fail to like them. I was so fond of Elle and Big Ben that I’d have followed them anywhere. Patience Agbabi has created something fresh and original here, and I look forward very much to what she writes next”
Philip Pullman
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“A fascinating, original and smart adventure tale with a rhythmic prose style that leaps off the page into scintillating life. It has a magic all of its own”
Bernardine Evaristo
“This time-travelling tale is a thrilling adventure with brilliant characters. Imaginative, unusual, exciting and funny”
the Week Junior
”The Infinite is so adventurous that it lit up parts of my brain I didn’t know I had. Patience Agbabi has caused a wonderful supernova deep in the literary universe … Elle is curious, questioning and fearless. What an inspiration. The future just got so much better”
Benjamin Zephaniah
“Highly original … It’s 2048 and kids have gone missing. It’s up to Elle and a cadre of friends to unravel what’s really going on across time”
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Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, spent her teenage years living in North Wales and now lives in Kent with her husband and children. She has been writing poetry for over twenty years, The Infinite is her first novel. Like Elle, she loves sprinting, numbers and pepper soup, but, disappointingly, her leaping is less spectacular.
The Infinite is the first book in The Leap Cycle series.
Patience Agbabi time travels into the CBBC Book Club to talk about The Time-Thief (the second adventure for the Leaplings after The Infinite) and some of its real world inspirations!
CBBC Book Club
Watch Patience Agbabi on the BBC’s Authors Live as she introduces her time-travelling Leaplings, reads from The Infinite, answers some questions from young readers and more!
BBC Authors Live
Patience Agbabi speaks to Ian McMillan on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb about time travel, word play and autism in her debut children’s novel The Infinite. Listen to the conversation and a reading from Patience from 33 minutes in.