![]() All are armed with their required survival skills and knowledge including a list of crisis points and bombing schedules to keep them safe. ![]() Colin is now in his final year at school and preparing to get into Oxford to study under Dunworthy, his dream of time-traveling still unabated and perhaps stoked a little by his crush on Dunworthy’s student Polly who is sent back to 1940s London together with fellow history students Merope and Michael in order to complete their finals. Dunworthy, his team at Balliol College and Colin Templar who was just a boy in the earlier novel. Set seven years after Doomsday book, we are once again reunited with Dr. ![]() And it was and so much more.īlackout and All Clear are two parts of one grand novel and so I will discuss them together. As much as I enjoyed the light tone of To Say Nothing of the Dog, I was hoping that Blackout and All Clear would be closer to the darker, sombre and menacing mood in Doomsday Book. After racing through both Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, I was keen to return to Connie Willis’ world, Oxford circa 2065, mixed with time travel back to the Blitz. ![]()
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