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I can't believe this amazing book has been sitting unread for so long in my Kindle library. It's a remarkable story about time travel, pandemic disease, the first half of the fourteenth century in the Oxford area, and human love. Willis didn't foresee the internet and cellular telephones, but otherwise her book is startlingly accurate in depicting the causes and effects of pandemic disease in the modern era, as well as foreshadowing the anti-immigrant sentiment that led to Brexit and the incredi
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I see what the complaints are about. It's true that I didn't particularly need hundreds of pages of people trying (and failing) to make phone calls, but I was also totally charmed by it (and by William and his mother, the American bell ringers, Colin, etc.) I don't know that I would read another book by her -- my understanding is they're all like this -- but I enjoyed this one well enough.
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Aug 17, 2012
Chriskolak
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Oct 21, 2014
sonicbooming
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Jan 04, 2017
Richard Eriksson
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