To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis
493 pages

One of Willis's patented science fiction romps and some would say somewhat inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.

An abducted cat from Victorian England has to be returned to its own time by a time traveller, working together with the person responsible for taking the cat in the first place. They find themselves in situations which could've been written by Jerome K. Jerome and hijinks ensue.

All their trouble is caused by the wishes of an eccentric American multimillionaire heiress who wants to restore Conventry Cathedral (destroyed in WW II) to its former glory and therefore needs to have the Bishop's bird stump an hideously overwrought nineteenth century vase. In order to get it back she has sent the first time travel back to very jumble sale ever held in the vicinity of Coventry Cathedral, looking for it...

An okay book, even if the author tries to hard to show off her erudition some times and has the unfortunate habit of providing spoilers for several books, including The Moonstone and Gaudy Night