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As close as you can come to real time travel

Reviewed: 01-02-14

What about Katherine Kellgren and Connie Willis ’s performance did you like?

The performance is masterful. All the various voices and accents come across superbly.

Any additional comments?

Connie Willis's time travel novels are always impeccably researched (in fact, it's probably one of the reasons she doesn't publish more often), so getting immersed in this story, and the characters she creates, is about as close as we can come as a modern audience to experiencing what London was like during the Blitz. It's not just in the period details, though . . . it's in the way she breathes life into her minor characters, how they go about their business despite a nightly rain of bombs falling out of the sky, and how their plights just MATTER because they might as well have been real people . . . that's the amazing strength, and the charm of "Blackout": just your average everyday ordinary heroics.

But don't be fooled. "Blackout" isn't merely a history lesson. It's also a cracking good story, and I can't wait to listen to the concluding volume "All Clear."

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