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Title:

To Say Nothing of the Dog
 

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Genres:

Science Fiction
Time Travel
Humour & Satire

Reviews:

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Connie Willis - To Say Nothing of the Dog - 8 NancyH


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Average Enjoyability:
8.5
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Average Rereadability:
5.5
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Average Complexity:
4.75
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Average Character Development:
6.5
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Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1998-12-00 Bantam Books  

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Blurb: 
Hugo winner for 1999 On the surface, England in the summer of 1888 is possibly the most restful time in history - lazy afternoons boating on the Thames, tea parties, croquet on the lawn - and time traveler Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He"s been shuttling back and forth between the 21st century and the 1940s looking for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop"s bird stump. It"s only the latest in a long string of assignments from Lady Schrapnell, the rich dowager who has invaded Oxford University. She"s promised to endow the university"s time-travel research project in return for their help in rebuilding the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years before. But the bargain has turned into a nightmare. Lady Schrapnell"s motto is God is in the details