The Ministry of Time

What happens when an author crushes on a real-life 19th-century polar explorer's photograph? The resulting obsession developed into The Ministry of Time, a book for anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to talk to someone who lived long ago. The protagonist works for a government program that has time-traveled a sampling of humans from different years of the past to 21st-century Britain. She's assigned to live with and monitor Commander Graham Gore, kidnapped from an arctic expedition in 1847 (think Mr. Darcy plopped into the modern age). This was such a fun read and I enjoyed the thought experiment of how people from different eras would react to the peculiarities of our time period.