Or somewhere inbetween 2 and 3 stars...

Blindly went into this expecting a thrilling H.G. Wells Sci-fi (bearing in mind I've never actually read anything from him before so what really are these expectations based on?) and was given a half-entertaining proto feminist novel. And somehow the New Woman feminist movement is made to be more of a plot device than a profound, self-realizing cause. So there's that.

Oo I like that it was narrated by Bill Nighy on BBC Sounds. But that's less to do with the book and more to do with Bill Nighy