"How can a modern American capture so perfectly the lyrical beauty, the tumult of thought, the arrogance, prejudice and charm, the sheer Englishness of Oxford in 1888? . . . It is all a journey of wit, humor, love and the sheer joy of life."
–Anne Perry, The Wall Street Journal "Swiftly paced and full of laughter, Willis' comedy of manners (and errors) is the most hilarious book of its kind since John Irving's
The Water-Method Man and
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole."
–Des Moines Sunday Register "I have long thought that Jerome K. Jerome's
Three Men In A Boat is one of the highest points of Inimitable British Humor. I chuckle; I gurgle; I know those three men–to say nothing of the dog. And now I am convinced there was a woman concealed in that boat, too: Connie Willis."
–Laurie R. King