![]() The second is that books by Willis focus extensively on miscommunications – sentences only half spoken, or misunderstood, or never conveyed, or conveyed too late, or lost in dreams. ![]() One is that she so thoroughly researches her work that this account of Medieval England is as extensive and accurate as any you will get in any academic study. And we live through Kivrin’s terror that she may never get back.Ĭonnie Willis is a remarkable author for several reasons. As we get to know the people with whom Kivrin stays in 1348 and learn to care about them, we live through the Plague as vividly and poignantly as she does. ![]() The book alternates between 20 as the historians try to get Kivrin back, and as Kivrin fights for her life. Unfortunately, an error drops her 28 years later, right into the time period of the Bubonic Plague. In 2054, the history department at Oxford is using time travel to amend and correct historical records, and so it allows Kivrin, a young woman studying history, to go back to 1320 for research. There are two settings in this book: the Oxford University History Department in the year 2054, and Medieval England in 1348. ![]()
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