Introduction by Adam Roberts.


A woman travels back through time to complete her doctoral thesis - but, due to an accident, she lands in the middle of the Black Plague of 1348. The Oxford she left behind is laid low by a mysterious strain of influenza and, with no-one willing to risk arranging her rescue, time is running out...


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"a tour de force" - New York Times Book Review

"ambitious, finely detailed and compulsivly readable" - Locus

"it is a book that feels fundamentally true; it is a book to live in" - Washington Post

Bio: Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (1945-) has won, among other awards, ten HUGO Awards and six NEBULA Awards for her writing. She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband Courtney Willis, a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado.