To say nothing of the dog: a novel of the oxford time travel series - connie willis

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.

Hes been shuttling between the twenty-first century and the 1940s in search of a Victorian atrocity called the bishops 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.