![]() Most of Blackout, when not at Oxford University in 2060, is mainly set in England at the time of Dunkirk and the Blitz in the Second World War (September 1939 – October 1940.) This time though we are not visiting Norman times. That, and the fact that it is unrelentingly bleak. Firstly it is a revisiting to the time-travelling group I first encountered with Doomsday Book (1992), a dreadfully titled tale, yet one of my favourites for all of the reasons given above. (Her last, Passage, was published in 2001.) So it is that I sat to read her latest, Blackout, her first novel for over nine years. I love her characters, her deceptively smooth style, her big concepts mixed in with touches of humour. I guess I should let it be known that I’m a big fan of Connie Willis’ work. ![]() (NB: Dan Beiger reviewed it for us HERE earlier in the year.) ![]()
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