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.  

Connie Willis is an established author of many science fiction books, including THE DOOMSDAY BOOK, and winner of both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for best sf novel.

Awards

Hugo Best Short story nominee (1980) : Daisy, in the Sun

Nebula Best Short story winner (1983) : A Letter from the Clearys

Hugo Best Novellette winner (1983) : Fire Watch

Nebula Best Novellette winner (1983) : Fire Watch

Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1984) : The Sidon in the Mirror

Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1984) : The Sidon in the Mirror

Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1985) : Blued Moon

Hugo Best Novella nominee (1987) : Spice Pogrom

World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1987) : Chance

Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1988) : Schwarzschild Radius

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1988) : Lincoln's Dreams

John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1988) : Lincoln's Dreams

Hugo Best Novella winner (1989) : The Last of the Winnebagos

Nebula Best Novella winner (1989) : The Last of the Winnebagos

Hugo Best Novella nominee (1990) : Time-out

Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1990) : At the Rialto

Nebula Best Novellette winner (1990) : At the Rialto

Hugo Best Short story nominee (1991) : Cibola

Hugo Best Short story nominee (1992) : In the Late Cretaceous

Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1992) : Miracle

Hugo Best Novella nominee (1992) : Jack

Nebula Best Novella nominee (1992) : Jack

Hugo Best Short story winner (1993) : Even the Queen

Nebula Best Short story winner (1993) : Even the Queen

Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1993) : Doomsday Book

Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Novel nominee (1993) : Doomsday Book

Nebula Best Novel winner (1993) : Doomsday Book

Hugo Best Novel winner (1993) : Doomsday Book

Hugo Best Short story winner (1994) : Death on the Nile

Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1994) : Death on the Nile

Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (1994) : Death on the Nile

Hugo Best Novel nominee (1996) : Remake

Hugo Best Short story winner (1997) : The Soul Selects Her Own Society: Invasion and Repulsion: A Chronological Reinterpretation of Two of Emily Dickinson's Poems: A Wellsian Perspective

Nebula Best Novel nominee (1998) : Bellwether

British Fantasy Society Best Short story nominee (1999) : The Winds of Marble Arch

British Fantasy Society Best Collection nominee (1999) : The Miracle of Christmas

Nebula Best Novel nominee (1999) : To Say Nothing of the Dog

Hugo Best Novel winner (1999) : To Say Nothing of the Dog

Hugo Best Novella nominee (2000) : The Winds of Marble Arch

Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Novel nominee (2002) : Passage

Nebula Best Novel nominee (2002) : Passage

Hugo Best Novel nominee (2002) : Passage