(Ned has fallen instantly in love with Verity, by the way).
It is imperative that Princess Arjumand must be returned to 1888 to close the incongruity. Somehow the cat returns with Verity to 2067 after she rescues it from drowning. Unable to locate it he returns to Oxford where he meets fellow historian Verity Kindle, who has been infiltrated into the Mering family at Muchings End in Oxfordshire in June 1888.Īt this point a cat enters the story, Princess Arjumand, who belongs to Tossie Mering, spoilt daughter of the family with a penchant for babytalk. The story begins with Ned poking around the ruins of the Cathedral days after the raid, trying to locate the bishop’s bird stump, a hideous Victorian flower ornament which has vanished – and which Lady Schrapnell has insisted must be found. She is not be brooked over the slightest minute detail. The project is the brain child of Lady Schrapnell, whom I imagine as a cross between Lady Bracknell and Mrs Thatcher. Ned and his fellow historians are working on a multi-million project to rebuild Coventry Cathedral exactly as it was before it destroyed in a Luftwaffe bombing raid on 14th November 1940, Oddly it’s not being built in Coventry, but in Oxford.
The time travel technology is known as “the net,” invented by a couple of chancers who hoped to ransack history for priceless artifacts but then discovered that objects from the past cannot be transported through time, only humans can travel back and forth (or so it’s thought).
Coventry Cathedral before the bombing raid
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