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. . .
Quotes:
"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.
