The Connie Willis is Blackout and All Clear (2010)? (I haven't read either.)
Yeah, which I thought would be great, but were so overlong and unedited. There's a minor cottage industry in picking out all the research mistakes, but the flaws are worse than that. Some isolated bits in it are good -- a woman taking care of orphans in the country, an American stumbling into Dunkirk, stuff about the inflatable tanks. The longer she's been writing, the more patchy her books have gotten, which is depressing. The project might have worked as one mightily edited-down long book, or two or three regular-sized novels, but it just doesn't jell.
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Yeah, which I thought would be great, but were so overlong and unedited. There's a minor cottage industry in picking out all the research mistakes, but the flaws are worse than that. Some isolated bits in it are good -- a woman taking care of orphans in the country, an American stumbling into Dunkirk, stuff about the inflatable tanks. The longer she's been writing, the more patchy her books have gotten, which is depressing. The project might have worked as one mightily edited-down long book, or two or three regular-sized novels, but it just doesn't jell.