Connie Willis is a brilliant writer that I reluctantly classify as science or speculative fiction (reluctantly because that seems discourage some readers). I previously read and loved Doomsday Book, and I enjoyed To Say Nothing of the Dog almost as much.
To Say Nothing of the Dog employs the same time-travel technology that is used in Doomsday Book, and is set in around the same time. It's a lighter story, set mostly in Victorian England, about the dreaded Lady Schrapnell who has sent Ned to retrieve the Bishop's bird stump from Coventry Cathedral.
It is a somewhat confusing story - there's romance, adventure, temporal incongruities and a beautifully realised Victorian society, all muddled up together. It's very lighthearted and lots of fun however, although I became somewhat confused towards the end when they're slowly figuring out the incongruity. It's a 4 out of 5, due to its lack of a strong linear storyline.
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