"Willis effortlessly juggles comedy of manners, chaos theory and a
wide range of literary allusions [with a] near flawlessness of plot,
character and prose." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a
comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time
travel.
Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He's been shuttling between the
twenty-first century and the 1940s in search of a Victorian atrocity
called the bishop's bird stump as part of a project to restore the famed
Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid more than a hundred
years earlier.
But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings
back something from the past. Now Ned must jump to the Victorian era to
help Verity put things right--not only to save the project but also to
prevent altering history itself.