A thrilling story by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones--with an
introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin.
London, 1939. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the
countryside, because of the war. But she is being kidnapped - out of her
own time. Her kidnappers are Jonathan and Sam, two boys her own age,
from a place called Time City, designed especially to oversee history.
But now history is going critical, and Jonathan and Sam are convinced
that Time City's impending doom can only be averted by a
twentieth-century girl named Vivian Smith. Too bad they have the wrong
girl. . . .