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To Say Nothing of the Dog
Comic science fiction
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Time-traveling historian Ned Henry has been overworked by repeated trips into the past to locate the bishop's bird stump for a reconstruction of Coventry Cathedral. Sent to Victorian England to recover, he instead becomes entangled with fellow historian Verity Kindle and a misplaced object that may have disturbed the course of history. Correcting the problem requires country-house visits, amateur detection, romantic confusion, and close attention to the surprisingly important lives of cats and people. Buoyant, brainy, and comic, this Oxford time-travel novel is an excellent vacation read for fans of historical farce, literary references, and causality under pressure.
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Occasional mild language · Historical wartime references · Comic peril
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Bishop’s Bird Stump
A fussy Victorian punch for chronologically exhausted historians.
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