Francis Spufford

London is on the brink of catastrophic war. Iris Hawkins, an ambitious young woman in the stuffy world of City finance, has a chance encounter with Geoff, a technical whizz at the BBC's nascent television unit. What was supposed to be one night of abandon draws her instead into an odyssey of otherworldly pursuit - into a reality where time bends, spirits can be summoned and history hangs by a thread.
Soon there are Nazi planes overhead, bombs dropping every night. But Iris has more to contend with than the terrors of the Blitz. Above the rooftops of burning London, in the twisted passages between past and present, a fascist fanatic is travelling with a gun in her hand. Only Iris can stop her from altering the course of history forever.