Date: 2011-08-29 04:50 pm (UTC)
Sorry but it's not the WW2 details she mucked up, it's basic facts about London as a city. She has characters taking tube lines that weren't going to be built until 20 and 30 years AFTER the war. She has phone calls and stamps made/posted in currencies that didn't exist until more than 25 years after WW2 ended. Then she had characters taking hours to get from A to B, when A and B are about as far apart as Belltown and Pioneer Square - but with much less inconvenient geography in the way.

Added to the lack of computers and mobile phones in her 2060s Oxford and you've a bunch of poor research about the basics of the place you've set your novel in...
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