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Celebrated author Connie Willis returns with her first novel since Passage! The opening salvo of a powerful two-book campaign, Blackout is a sweeping time-travel adventure with ties to Willis’ most popular novels, The Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog.

It’s the year 2060, and the time-travel lab at Oxford is sending three scholars into one of the most dangerous periods of the 20th century—the Second World War. Eileen’s drop point is a remote British manor where she can research the Children’s Evacuation at the outbreak of the war. Polly will be masquerading as a London shop girl while she studies people’s behavior during the Blitz. And Mike Davis is going to observe the rescue of soldiers from Dunkirk to discover what qualities turn ordinary people into heroes.

But when each of their drops back to the future refuses to open, these three refugees must jump from the safety of remote vantage points to total embeddedness. Can they find each other and figure out how to return to their own time before it’s too late?

Told with passion, humor, sympathy and a historian’s understanding of the time, Blackout once again proves why Connie Willis is so beloved by both critics and readers alike.