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 21st century and the 1940s searching for a
Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump. It's part of a
project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air
raid over a hundred years earlier.
But then Verity Kindle, a
fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the
past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put
things right--not only to save the project but to prevent altering
history itself.